DEVELOPMENTS IN THE IDENTIFICATION OF HUMAN SKELETAL MATERIAL (1968-1978)

A review of publications over the last ten years of methods in the field of physical anthropology for determining age, sex, race and stature of human skeletal material is presented. Comparisons are made with the types of papers published in the previous ten years (1958–1968) in six categories: (1) Visual examination of bones (2) Anthropometric measurements of bones (3) Anthropometric measurements with subsequent use of statistics in the form of discriminate function analyses (4) Time and sequence of eruption of the teeth (5) X‐ray examination of the internal structure of bone sections (6) Microscopic examination of the internal structure of bone. Copyright © 1979 Wiley‐Liss, Inc., A Wiley Company