ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Published Online: 1 April 1979
Page Count: 13

Sex and Race Determination of Crania by Calipers and Computer: A Test of the Giles and Elliot Discriminant Functions in 52 Forensic Science Cases
Snow, CC
Chief, Protection and Survival Laboratory, Okla

Giles, E
Professor and head, University of Illinois,

Young, FA
Chief, Protection and Survival Laboratory, Okla

Hartman, S
Research assistant, University of Oklahoma,

(Received 29 August 1978; accepted 15 September 1978)

Abstract

The sex and race of unidentified skeletons must sometimes be determined by medical examiners or crime laboratory personnel who have no formal training in physical anthropology. Their diagnoses, based on a hasty review of the chapter on skeletal identification in a forensic pathology textbook or on old lecture notes from a homicide seminar, are often wrong. Such knowledge cannot always substitute for the skilled eye and practiced judgment of a physical anthropologist who, in the course of his career, may have examined hundreds of skeletons.

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Paper ID: JFS10852J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS10852J
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