FORENSICS

Digital Teaching Collection: Skull

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All specimens shown represent bones of the skull, which can sometimes be used to estimate ancestry.

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Using your available reference material, identify the following:

  • What bone is it?
  • What side of the body did it come from?
  • What was the possible age of the individual at time of death?
  • What morphological features helped you to answer the above questions?

Specimen: ST-18, UT Austin Teaching Collection

Using your available reference material, identify the following:

  • What bone is it?
  • What side of the body did it come from?
  • What was the possible age of the individual at time of death?
  • What morphological features helped you to answer the above questions?

Specimen: STAFS 2017-049

Using your available reference material, identify the following:

  • What bone is it?
  • What side of the body did it come from?
  • What was the possible age of the individual at time of death?
  • What morphological features helped you to answer the above questions?

Specimen: STAFS 2016-068

Using your available reference material, identify the following:

  • What bone is it?
  • What side of the body did it come from?
  • What was the possible age of the individual at time of death?
  • What morphological features helped you to answer the above questions?

Specimen: STAFS 2016-068

Using your available reference material, identify the following:

  • What bone is it?
  • What side of the body did it come from?
  • What was the possible age of the individual at time of death?
  • What morphological features helped you to answer the above questions?

Specimen: STAFS 2017-049

Using your available reference material, identify the following:

  • What bone is it?
  • What side of the body did it come from?
  • What was the possible age of the individual at time of death?
  • What morphological features helped you to answer the above questions?

Specimen: STAFS 2010-017

Using your available reference material, identify the following:

  • What bone is it?
  • What side of the body did it come from?
  • What was the possible age of the individual at time of death?
  • What morphological features helped you to answer the above questions?

Specimen: STAFS 2014-012

Using your available reference material, identify the following:

  • What bone is it?
  • What side of the body did it come from?
  • What was the possible age of the individual at time of death?
  • What morphological features helped you to answer the above questions?

Specimen: STAFS 2012-002

Using your available reference material, identify the following:

  • What bone is it?
  • What side of the body did it come from?
  • What was the possible age of the individual at time of death?
  • What morphological features helped you to answer the above questions?

Specimen: STAFS 2019-039

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