The Sagittal Suture as an Indicator of Race and Sex

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Copyright Year	2014
Description	Perhaps the most controversial set of remains that included cranial suture complexity as an indicator of race was the approximately 9,000-year-old Kennewick Man-one of the oldest and most complete human skeletons recovered in North America-found eroding out of the Columbia River bank in Kennewick, Washington, in 1996. In compiling the biological prole, physical anthropologists used Kennewick Man's “medium” degree of suture complexity, a “European/Caucasoid” trait, as one of the cranial features that distinguished him from American Indians (Powell and Rose 1999). Regardless of its perceived strengths or weaknesses, the fact that suture complexity as a racial trait has been upheld in a court of law (Neiburger 2003) and the reality that some scientists rely on suture morphology as an indicator of race reveal a level of uncertainty worthy of further research. Book Name: Biological Affinity in Forensic Identification of Human Skeletal Remains
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Ending Page	153
Page Count	38
Starting Page	116
DOI	10.1201/b17832-11
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2014-12-13
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Book Name: Biological Affinity in Forensic Identification of Human Skeletal Remains Legal Medicine Cranial Kennewick Man Suture Complexity Indicator of Race
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter