Old People Fat Research Paper

The process of estimating a persons stature from a skeletal remains has a long history in physical anthropology. The correlation between a persons height and the length of their bones, throughout all ages allows the osteologist a better frame from which they can reconstruct an individuals stature, with the use of different skeletal elements. The use of body collections such as the Hamann and Todd collection that house around 2,600 skeletal remains of individual, who died in the 1900’s are helpful as comparisons(White et al 2005).An individuals height and stature is a great piece of information of identification within a forensic investigation, however in order to obtain a persons stature you must first determine their race, sex and age as an individuals stature will vary dependant on these variables. Stature estimations are not exact and must be expressed with a range of error as many aspects of an individual may cause a difference in stature (Garwin 2006) …show more content…
Although shorter bones in the hands and the feet may also be used. By using 2 or more of these bones we allow for a more accurate result.There are two types of stature determination. Firstly there is potential stature which refers to the stature of an individual who at the time of death had not began to undergo skeletal changes associated with the ageing process. It is common to see people who’s age remains under 30 will not yet have began to decrease in stature. Secondly there is living stature this type of stature refers to individuals who are 30 years in age or above at the time of their death, their bones indicate that they have begun to transition through the ageing process which incurs degenerative changes to the skeleton (Garwin