Jess's+Anthropology!^!^!*

I learned alot about anthropology throughtout this unit. I gained alot of information from doing the Romanov family website. It thought me how to determine age, gender, race and height from the bones left over. Alot of the things are determined from the pelvis, skull bone, and just all the bones they find in general. You can figure out age from the person's wisdom teeth. If they have wisdom teeth they are older than 18. If they do not have wisdom teeth yet, they are under the age of 18. In the Romanov family case that's how they determined which body was which. They also looked at the pelvis bone if there was one. Women have larger pelvic bones and men have a smaller one. Alot of the bones were not there because it had happened so long ago that, the only bone structure they had to go off of was the skull bone, and that too helped them determine who was who. We did a experiment where we measured certain bones in our body and then did a class average of everyone's length. The 2 girls were for the most part smaller in size then the male's bone lenghts. Can determine male/female male pelvic bone- smallerFrom this pic you can determine the race of the person.