[Under Construction]

 

The eForensics site will present the more advanced student with forensic case studies within a rich problem solving context that applies what they have learned from the eSkeletons site. Teaching modules for age estimation, sex determination, and, with the use of on-screen digital caplipers, stature estimation will be available. Questions in assessing ancestry, pathology, and taphonomic processess will also be addressed.

It is currently under construction so please check back soon for updates.

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Anthropology is the study of humans, physically and culturally, in the past and present. Forensic Anthropology uses anthropological knowledge and techniques in a legal context. Standard methods in osteology (skeletal anatomy and biology) are used to identify skeletal remains and, in some cases, the cause of death. These methods include Age and Sex Assessment, Stature and Ancestry Estimation, and observations on Pathology (disease) and Taphonomy (after death processes). Forensic Anthropology also uses archaeological techniques in the recovery of human remains.

The eForensics Project website is focused on the study of Forensic Anthropology. It offers an interactive set of teaching modules that allows a user to learn the evaluation techniques forensic anthropologists use to gain important information from a skeleton.

Age Estimation		Sex Estimation		Stature Estimation
Taphonomy		Pathology		Ancestry
		Comparative Anatomy

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Created at the University of Texas at Austin by

Principal Investigator: John Kappelman, PhD

Project Manager (current): Lauri Thompson, PhD

ColdFusion, SQL and Database Programming: Selma Ikiz

Current Contributors: Claud Bramblett, Nick Caffarelli, Rachel Menegaz, Christyna Solhan, and Adrienne Witzel.