Asm 275 / Asm275 Exam #2

A person with subpubic concavity is female. Subadult age estimation is based on and is generally accurate than adult age estimation. Sex assessment is based on the fact that The pubic symphysis of an older adult individual will appear: 1. If we assume a racial view of human prehistory is a correct reflection of what actually happened in our past, then this suggests there were long periods of geographic isolation separating different populations of humans. Which of the following skeletal features is not used to estimate adult age: 2. Social race refers to: Which of the following can NOT be used to estimate the sex of human remains? 3. You are trying to estimate sex for a human pelvis but the pubic bone is completely missing. Which of the following could you use to estimate sex? Sex is the same thing as gender in humans. All of the following techniques can be used to estimate age in subadults EXCEPT: Assessing sex for female skulls for which the individual is older than 60 years can be difficult because: All of the following are features of the cranium that are useful for sex estimation EXCEPT: Alveolar prognathism is associated with which ancestral affiliation? 4. African 5. Which method for estimating age at death in adult skeletons uses counts of whole and partial osteons to generate the age estimate? You find some fully adult, likely middle-aged skeletal remains in your lab. Which of the following techniques could 6. you use to more accurately age this individual? 7. The ear-shaped joint between the sacrum and each os coxa is called the , and can be used to estimate age at death in adult skeletons. A person with a ventral arc is male. A skull with a large mental eminence is probably female. Shovel shaped incisors are a dental trait usually possessed by: Young individuals usually have a pubic symphysis that is: If you do not have a complete skeleton and would like to estimate stature, you must use: As a method oaf adult age estimation, cranial suture closure produces highly accurate estimates with small ranges Sex assessment mostly uses the size and morphology of the . Which anatomical region produces the most accurate sex estimates? The cranial suture method of estimating age is the most accurate methods we discussed. is how close a measured value is to the actual value while is how close the measured values 8. are to one another. Which of the following is not a pelvic sex indicator Typical adult age estimating techniques are based on: When estimating the sex of a complete set of juvenile skeletal remains, the most accurate part of the body is the: