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1
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Father of American Forensic Anthropology

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Thomas Dwight (1843-1911)

2
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Identified the remains in the Leutgart case as human

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George Dorsey

3
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Zoologist who became interested in dermatoglyphics and facial reconstruction

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Harris H. Wilder

4
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First to provide stature information on Chinese

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Paul Stevenson

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Founder of the AAPA who worked on race estimations

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Ales Hrdlicka

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Worked with a massive skeletal collection and developed an age estimation method based on the pubic symphysis

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T. Wingate Todd

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Anatomist from WashU who built a large skeletal collection

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Robert J. Terry

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Mentor to Dr. Bass and published the Guide to the Identification of Human Skeletal Material in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin

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Wilton Krogman

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CILHI—what is the current name?

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Central Identification Laboratory Hawaii: name changed to Joint POW/MIA Accounting Central Identification Laboratory (JPAC-CIL).

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First anthropologist at CILHI, worked at Kentucky, introduced Bass to anthropology.

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Charles Snow

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worked with Terry at WashU, replaced Snow at CILHI, and worked on stature estimation with Gleser

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Mildred Trotter

12
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Identification of the Korean War dead at CILHI

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T. Dale Stewart

13
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Developed FORDISC

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Richard Jantz

14
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Founded the modern anthropology department at UT and the skeletal collection that now exceeds 1,000 individuals.

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William Bass

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Describe the requirements of the Daubert Rule

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Testimony content must be testable with the scientific method, there must be professional standards, and error rates must be known and used.

16
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What was formed in response to Daubert and from criticism from the scientific community?

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SWGANTH: Scientific Working Group for Forensic Anthropology

17
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Myositis ossificans

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muscle ossification

18
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microcephaly

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brain case is very reduced in size

19
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What is a bipartite parietal?

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When the parietal bone develops from two parts and there is a suture between them.

20
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What is the best way to sex a subadult skeleton?

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DNA analysis

21
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2,000 individuals from NYC

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Huntington Collection

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4,000 individuals from Cleveland, OH

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Hamann-Todd Collection

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2,000 individuals from St. Louis housed now at the Smithsonian

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Terry Collection

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1,100 Individuals from Eastern USA housed at UT

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Bass Collection

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2,000 hyoids, 2,000 clavicles from Eastern TN

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McCormick Collection

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50 fetal individuals at the Smithsonian Institution

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Hrdlicka Collection

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50 fetal individuals at WashU

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Trotter Collection

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230 individuals from USA, mostly NM

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University of New Mexico Documented Collection

29
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Males tend to have a ___ chin; females a ___ chin

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square males, female rounded

30
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Superior border orbits in males are typically ___ whereas in females they are

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duller, blunter; in females sharper.

31
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Ventral arc

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females typically have; males do not

32
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A billowed right fourth rib sternal end indicates

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youthfulness

33
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What are some problems in the use of non-metric traits for ancestry estimation?

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Experience is mandatory, there is little quantification, the methods haven’t changed, the terms are hard to define: Oval window? A Quonset Hut?, etc. no statistics can be applied.

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What are some features of a female pelvis?

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The presence of a ventral arc, subpubic concavity, and a sharp medial aspect to the ischiopubic ramus. The presence of a preauricular sulcus and a wide greater sciatic notch also support female sex.

35
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What components are used in age estimation?

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Fourth rib end morphology and the pelvis: pubis symphysis and auricular surface morphology.

36
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George Dorsey

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Leutgart Case

37
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Thomas Dwight

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founding father of american forensic anthropology

38
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Harris Wilder

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dermatoglypics and facial reconstruction

39
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Paul Stevenson

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Chinese population age and stature estimation

40
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Ales Hrdlicka

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AAPA founder who worked on race estimation

41
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T. Wingate Todd

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Todd Collection; age estimation based on the pubic symphysis

42
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Robery Terry

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built a large skeletal collection

43
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What are the Phenice traits?

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Ventral arc, sharp medial aspect of the ischiopubic ramus, and subpubic concavity

44
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A wide greater sciatic notch and preauricular sulcus suggest

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female sex

45
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Billowed 4th rib head morphology and billows in the auricular morphology of the pelvis suggest

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young age

46
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Mildred Trotter

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worked with Goldine Gleser to generate regression formulae for stature estimation from long bones using Korean War dead and the Terry collection

47
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What are some traits used in ancestry estimation?

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postbregmatic depression, nasal aperture width, interorbital width, inferior nasal aperture, anterior nasal spine, transverse palatine suture, posterior zygomatic tubercle, supranasal suture (metopic remnant), zygomaticomaxillary suture shape.

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What are the two ways to measure stature?

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The anatomical method (Dwight) and the regression method (Trotter and Gleser).

49
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Describe some of the morphological changes to the auricular surface with age

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A fine-grained billowed surface in youth gains striae and retroauricular activity, then granularity and microporsity and more retroauricular activity appear, and then micro/macroporosity and more extensive grandularity.

50
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Males or females have heavier temporal lines

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Males

51
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Males or females have a square chin

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Males

52
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The supraorbital margin of females is more

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sharper than the dull/blunt border of males

53
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Morress, Fanning, and Hunt

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Crown and root development for age estimation

54
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Harris and McKee

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broader application of the MFH method to a large population

55
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Suchey-Brooks method

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phase 1-6 method for characterizing the pubic symphysis

56
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Lovejoy method is used for

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auricular surface morphology (age)

57
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Rib phases for sternal end morphology age estimation were established by

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Iscan and Loth

58
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Lamendin root translucency is

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(1992) a very reliable way to estimate age from dentition

59
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Types 1-3 cranial landmarks

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Type I: intersection of sutures or other distinct boundaries. Type II: deepest incurvature or greatest extension along a curve. Type III: endpoints for a maximum along a linear axis.

60
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Identification of Korean War dead at CILHI; identification work for the FBI

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T. Dale Stewart