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Determination of Sex from Skull |
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Determination of Race from Skull |
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Southwestern Native Americans of Asian Ancestry |
Americans of European Ancestry |
Americans of African Ancestry |
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| overall shape |
short base chord |
long base chord |
long base chord (longest) |
| base angle high |
base angle low |
base angle low (lowest) |
| Keeled Skull (bump at top) |
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Post-bregmatic depression |
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shape of nasals |
Tented Nasals
(narrower than African American) |
Tower Nasals
(steep) |
Quonset Hut Nasals
(metal dome, semicircle) |
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nasal overgrowth |
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nasal opening flared at base |
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nasal opening flared |
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small nasal spine |
large nasal spine |
small nasal spine |
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blurred nasal sill |
sharp nasal sill |
guttered nasal sill |
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depressed nasion
(under glabella) |
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| zygomatics |
projecting zygomatics
(forward projection of face - flattened cheek) |
retreating zygomatics |
vertical zygomatics |
zygomatico-
maxillary suture |
angled zygomaticomaxillary suture |
s-shaped zygomaticomaxillary suture |
s-shaped zygomaticomaxillary suture |
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| ascending ramus |
wide ascending ramus |
most pinched ascending ramus |
less pinched ascending ramus |
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| chin |
vertical chin |
prominent chin |
vertical chin |
| blunt chin |
bilobate chin |
blunt chin |
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| oval window |
oval window not visible
(external auditory meatus more constricted, flatter face changes angle
of bones) |
oval window visible
(rounded external auditory meatus) |
oval window visible
(rounded external auditory meatus) |
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| palatine suture |
straight palatine suture |
bulging palatine suture |
bulging palatine suture |
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| dental arcade |
most divergent tooth row, dental arcade |
divergent and parallel tooth row, dental arcade (midway
divergence) |
most parallel tooth row, dental arcade |
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| teeth |
shovel shaped incisors |
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carabelli's cusp
(accessory cusp on maxillary molar) |
molar crenulations
(folded appearance, esp. 2nd & 3rd) |
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large prognathism |
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Wormian Bones & Other Ossicles
os japonicum - extra ossicle on zygomatic |
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inion hook |
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