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Lab Report Outline: Skeletal Measurements M. Villani
Introduction:
1. Explain Alphonse Bertillon's anthropometry identification system.
2. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of his system.
2. Compare Bertillon's identification system with the modern fingerprint system.
Problem: What can we learn about the person who died by measuring the individual's skeletal remains?
Hypothesis: What is Alphonse Bertillon's hypothesis?
Data:
1. Individual results
2. Class results (male and female)
3. Pelvic measurements (male and female)
Analysis:
1. What skeletal measurements are the same?
2. How can the similarities be used to group and subgroup skeletal remains?
3. What can be learned about the individual who died by examining the
length of the femur, length of the foot and armspan of the skeletal remains.
4. What can be learned about the individual who died by measuring the bones of pelvic girdle?
5. Expalin why the graph in figure 2 (handouts) cannot be used to determine the age beyond 18 years.
Conclusion:
1. How can the age of a skeleton be determined?
2. How can the race of a skeleton be determined?
3. How can the sex of a skeleton be determined?
4. What were the strengths and weaknesses of Bertillon's hypothesis
concerning body measurements?
5. What did you learn about yourself by examining your own body measurements?
6. How are skeletal remains individualized?
7. Based on the data collected in class, is Alphonse Bertillon's hypothesis correct? Why or why not?
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