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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Biodistance analysis of Hispanic skeletons

Carreras, Annette Rodriguez January 2013 (has links)
The morphoscopic traits used to assign the term Hispanic to a skeleton constitute mainly a mixture of characteristics that have been assigned by anthropologists to Asian and Caucasian ancestry groups. Therefore, the morphological characteristics for the population termed Hispanic are not well defined. The aim of this study is to conduct a biodistance analysis of skeletons of Hispanic ancestry from Puerto Rico. The purpose of this is to assess how similar their morphoscopic characteristics are to other populations termed Hispanic as well as populations termed Asian. The analysis will be conducted by taking craniometric measurements. Pre-Colombian as well as modern skeletons from Puerto Rico will be examined and compared to other Hispanic as well as Asian populations that form part of the Forensic Anthropology Data Bank (FDB). Results from this study will help characterize Hispanic skeletal variation. In addition, this study will discuss the complexities of Hispanic classification in forensic anthropological contexts.

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