A critical review of the conceptual and practical evolution of forensic anthropology during the
last two decades serves to identify two key external factors and four tightly inter‐related …

Forensic anthropologists assist law enforcement agencies and medical examiner's offices
with investigations involving human remains, providing insight into trauma analysis, the …

Historically, when predicting the ancestry of human skeletal remains, forensic
anthropologists have not fully considered the variation within human populations, but …

Ancestry assessments using cranial morphoscopic traits currently rely on subjective trait lists
and observer experience rather than empirical support. The trait list approach, which is …

A skeletal assessment of ancestry relies on morphoscopic traits and skeletal measurements.
Using a sample of A merican B lack (n= 38), A merican W hite (n= 39), and S outhwest H …

Ancestry estimation methods using macromorphoscopic (MMS) traits commonly focus
exclusively on cranial morphology. The objective of this study was to demonstrate the value …

Why are biological anthropologists interested in studying ancestry when the topic is mired
with controversy due to the ways race research has been used socially and politically? The …

This study evaluates population variation of eight cranial morphoscopic traits using samples
of known southwest Hispanics (n= 72), Guatemalans (n= 106), American Blacks (n= 146) …

Johann Blumenbach (1752–1840), a German anatomist and naturalist, did not agree with
Linnaeus. Blumenbach could not see how the natural world and its inhabitants could be …

Forensic anthropologists are faced with many challenges one of which is setting the grounds
for the assessment of an unknown individual's population affinity, an essential element for …