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ANTH 486 Midterm Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass Thomas Dwight - Father of forensic anthropology First to apply knowledge about the skeleton to forensic situations Wanted to know how to estimate stature with out long bones Used the sternum to determine sex, age and stature Cranial suture...

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Thomas Dwight - ✔✔Father of forensic anthropology


First to apply knowledge about the skeleton to forensic situations


Wanted to know how to estimate stature with out long bones


Used the sternum to determine sex, age and stature


Cranial sutures to estimate age


Won a prize in 1878 for essay on medico legal topic


George Dorsey - ✔✔Recognized Dwight's contributions


Recognized the head of the humerus is a better sex indicator than the femoral head.


Leutgeurt Case (wife killed in a vat of potash, 4 small fragments remained)


Harris H. Wilder - ✔✔Zoologist interested in anthropology


Interest in demographics


Paul Stevenson - ✔✔American anatomist who spent time in China



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,Age order of epiphysial union in humans


Regression formula for Chinese stature


Ales Hrdlicka - ✔✔Smithsonian Inst


Built skeletal collections


Father of physical anthropology


Earnest Hooten - ✔✔Harvard


Trained students in the field


T. Wingate Todd - ✔✔Western Reserve, OH


Todd Collection


Robert J. Terry - ✔✔Terry Collection


Wilton M. Krogman - ✔✔Guide to identification of human skeletal material (1939) in

FBI bulletin


Worked with TW Todd


Human skeleton in forensic medicine (1962)


Central Identification Laboratory (CILHI) - ✔✔Changed to Joint POWMIA Accounting

Comman (JPAC)


The changed to Defense POWMIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)



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, Est 1947


Identify dead from Pacific war


Currently the largest employer of forensic anthropologists


Charles E Snow - ✔✔University of Kentucky


First biological anthropologist at CILHI


Work on stature estimation with Gleser for the quarter master corps


T. Dale Stewart - ✔✔Smithsonian


Worked with military on identifying Korean War dead


Third at CILHI


Skeletal Age Changed in Young American Males (1957) with Thomas Mckern


Personal identification in mass disasters


Essentials of Forensic Anthropology (1979)


Identification work for the FBI


American Academy of Forensic Science - ✔✔AAFS


Anthropology section founded in 1972


American Board of Forensic Anthropology (1977)




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