Nonmetric subadult skeletal sexing traits: I. A blind test of the accuracy of eight previously proposed methods using prehistoric known-sex mummies from Northern Chile

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 927-935

  Sutter, Richard C ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE TARAPACÁ   (Chile)

Author keywords

Bioarchaeology; Forensic anthropology; Forensic science; Human identification; Juvenile

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARCHEOLOGY; CHILD; CHILE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; FORENSIC SCIENCE; HUMAN; ILIAC BONE; ILIAC CREST; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANDIBLE; NEWBORN; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SKELETON;

EID: 0042320315     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1520/jfs2002302     Document Type: Conference Paper

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