Ancestry estimation in forensic anthropology: A review

RR Dunn, MC Spiros, KR Kamnikar… - Wiley …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Forensic anthropologists assist law enforcement agencies and medical examiner's offices
with investigations involving human remains, providing insight into trauma analysis, the …

Recentering forensic anthropology within a multifaceted body of evolutionary theory: Strengthening method by making theory explicit

AP Winburn, AD Yim, MK Stock - American Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The discipline of forensic anthropology has been critiqued for its lack of a theoretical basis.
In response, practitioners often assert that their analyses are implicitly grounded in …

Pedagogical access and ethical considerations in forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology

MC Spiros, AM Plemons, JA Biggs - Science & Justice, 2022 - Elsevier
Traditional education in biological anthropology relies primarily on hands-on, highly visual
experiences. Forensic anthropologists, bioarchaeologists, and osteologists in general …

The macromorphoscopic databank

JT Hefner - American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The development of identification standards in forensic anthropology requires large and
appropriate reference samples comprising individuals with modern birth years. Recent …

Ancestry estimation using cranial and postcranial macromorphoscopic traits

MC Spiros, JT Hefner - Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Ancestry estimation methods using macromorphoscopic (MMS) traits commonly focus
exclusively on cranial morphology. The objective of this study was to demonstrate the value …

Ancestry estimation: Advances and limitations in forensic applications

DE Flouri, A Alifragki… - … and Reports in …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Standardization of Postcranial Nonmetric Traits and Their Utility in Ancestry Analysis.

MC Spiros - Forensic Anthropology (University of Florida), 2019 - search.ebscohost.com
Throughout the forensic anthropology and archaeology disciplines, postcranial nonmetric
traits have varied in name, descriptions, and scoring methodology. This research focuses on …

Intraobserver error in macromorphoscopic trait data

KR Kamnikar, AM Plemons… - Journal of forensic …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
As part of a much larger investigation into the use of macromorphoscopic trait data by
forensic anthropologists to estimate ancestry from unidentified skeletal remains, we …

Morphoscopic ancestry estimates in Filipino crania using multivariate probit regression models

MC Go, JT Hefner - American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Probit has not been applied to ancestry estimation in forensic anthropology. The
goals of this study were to:(1) evaluate the performance of probit analysis as a classification …

A bibliometric analysis of research trends for missing persons globally and in East Asia from 2000 to 2021

Z Zeng, I Dikeledi, Y Lv - Forensic Sciences Research, 2024 - academic.oup.com
A bibliometric analysis was performed to explore the current research status and
development trends for missing persons globally and in East Asia and to identify research …