Reference Collection Database

This list of collections of human osteological material with known ages and sex was compiled by Dr. Bethany Usher of the Department of Anthropology at the State University of New York, College at Potsdam.  References are below the table.  Please contact me by email or postal mail with any questions.  Also, if you have updates or additional information about these or other reference collections, please contact me.

Name Number of Skeletons Males Females Origin Verification Other notes Contact Address
"Drago Pervic" Institute of Anatomy Osteological Collection 300 (partially skulls)  50% 50% hospitals, lunatic asylums, retirement homes in Zagreb and nearby towns known individuals poor europeans  University of Zagreb Medical School 10 000 Zagreb, Salata 3, Box 916 Croatia            phone 385 01 4566 953 fax 385 01 4590195
Museum Vrolik (DeFroe collection), Department of Medicine, Academic Medical Center 100-200 skulls 360     private collection names, ages, birthdates munger-human malformations Dept. of Anatomy & Embryology and Museum Vrolik, Academic Medical Center, Meibergdreef 15, L2-225a,  1105 AZ Amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS           31 20 566 7821 or 4927, fax 31 20 697 6177
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Medical University, Department of Forensic Medicine, Szeged, Hungary 106 fetal and neonate skeletons            
Amsterdam Laboratory of Anatomy and Embryology >256 >174 >82 Dissection material collected in the period A.D. 1883-1909 and involves non-Jewish inhabitants of Amsterdam born in almost all parts of the Netherlands name, age, sex, stature, and sometimes cause of death are known from records only Dutch collection of its kind  
Banaras Hindu University >244 >176 >68 Varanasi zone, India     Department of Anatomy, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005
Belgian femurs >416            
British Museum of Natural History 111 skulls     mainly soldiers age and nationality recorded only were known for certain 46 were recorded as insane, but the form of insanity was not specified  
Broadbeach Osteological Collection 36 36   Ngaraangbal Aboriginal Tribe's ancestral burial ground at Broadbeach, Australia   Collection was returned for reburial in 1985, however radiographic and photographic records are available for study  
Brush-Bolton Collection           growth data (X-rays) and collections Bolton Dental Building, School of Dentistry, Case Western Reserve University, 2123 Abington Road, Cleveland, OH 44106  (216) 368-6715
Chiang Mai University Thailand 104 70 34 Donated remains from individuals who died at Chiang Mai University hospital death records kingchri@hawaii.edu Chiang Mai University Hospital, Department of Anatomy, Chiang Mai, Thailand  50120          66-53-217-144 (fax)
Coimbra >121 2165       an identity document for each individual    
Collezione Guglielmo Romiti 34 34 8 general and mental hospital in Siena, Italy ages not verified collected from 1879-1881, poor Italians Dip. Scienze Biomediche, Istituti Biologici, V A Moro, 53100 Siena, Italy  0039.577.234064
Dart Collection, Department of Anatomical Sciences >360 >160 >100       Medical School, 7 York Road, Parktown 2193, South Africa           (011) 647-2405 
Department of anatomy and cell biology             Robert-Koch-Str 6, D-35037 Marburg, Germany           
Department of Anatomy, Lady Hardinge Medical College 315     Indian origin      
Duckworth Osteological Collection             Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ    
FACES Lab       forensic cases     227 Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803   OFFICE PHONE: (504) 388-6084 LAB PHONE: (504) 388-4761  
Ferraz de Macedo           apparently destroyed by fire in 1978  
Florida Atlantic University       forensic cases   mentioned on web site that they have human skeletal material and forensic cases for research.  Department of Anthropology, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida 33431-0991       (561)297-2256
Frassetto collection >200 200 >100 100 >100 100 Sardianian, exhumed around 1900 from Sassari cemetery     Dipartimento di Biologia Evoluzionistica Sperimentale, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Via Selmi n.3, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Galloway Osteological Collection 591           Faculty of Medicine P.O.box 7062 Kampala, Uganda                   (256-41)558731/557505
Grant Collection 202 175 27 cadaver-derived from the unclaimed bodies of low socioeconomic status indigents yes-vital statistics records, hospital records, person history information threw away all without age verification data in 1948; predominately white; dates from AD 1928 to early 1950s Dept of Anthropology, University of Toronto, 100 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G3                         416-978-6293                 fax 416-978-3217
Hamann-Todd Collection 3,592     cadaver-derived from the unclaimed bodies of low socioeconomic status indigents   Both Black and white The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, 1 Wade Oval Drive, University Circle, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-1767                 (216) 231-4600 or (800) 317-9155    
Hanged men 3 3 0 Southern Ontario      
Harvie family cemetery 6 2 4 Southern Ontario      
Highland Park Cemetery 296         served the poorhouse, was used between 1826 and 1863  
Holland              
Hong Kong 94 68 26 Southern China - excavation of known individuals from Wo Hop Shick cemetery   Bones in poor condition, skulls okay.  Not well curated.  Christy Turner has looked at it. 5/fl. Li Shu Fan Bldg, 5 Sassoon road, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong      852-2819-9172   
Hungarian Natural History Museum, Anthropology Department >10     exavation of church basement detailed church records   H-1083 Budapest, Ludovika tér 2          (36) 1-313-8617 
I. Gemmerich Collection 151 48 103 modern cemeteries of the Vaud Canton     Web Address
Institute of Anatomy, Aachen,Germany 101 57 44 body donors     Institut fur Anatomie I RWTH Aachen Wendlingweg 2           D-52074 Aachen            49-241-80-89100         Fax 49-241-8082-431  
Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Vienna, Austria large number     cadaver donors      
Institute of Forensic Sciences over 205 205   modern Chinese identification papers   1347 Guanfuxi Road, Shanghai, China
Institute of Legal Medicine, Bari, Italy >80 >40 >40 Southern Italian     Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Bair, 70100 Bari, Italy
Institute of Normal Human Anatomy - University of Siena Craniological Collection 742 skulls 175 157 a large number of the inhabitants in Siena and outskirts the general hospital and mental hospital in Siena    
Johns Hopkins Fetal Collection              
Maxwell Museum Documented Collection, University of New Mexico >220 >77 >45 body donation program (on-going) well documented, with health data black and white, births after 1900 Anthropology Building, Room 240, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131   (505) 277-4405 
Medicolegal Institute at Bhopal in Central India 124 80 44 India      
Mediterranean Caucasoid Collection 42 hip bones 27 15 from adult male and female dead bodies of the modern rural and urban population of Madrid, Spain   none of the bones were damaged or showed any pathological alterations that could lead to error in measurements. 26 of the bones were from the right side and 16 were from the left.  
M.R.Drennan Museum and Departmental Specimen Collection ~250     Cadaver      
Morphology Collection 236     cadavers from NYU Medical School, Long Island
Medical College, and the Cornell Medical School 
    Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024-5192                           212-769-5882
Musee d'Anatomie Delmas-Orfila-Rouviere             Paris V Rene Descartes University, 45, rue des Saints-Peres, 75006 Paris                         42 86 20 47   l
Museo di Antropolgia ed Ethnologia, Florence, Italy 3,460 skulls, 171 complete skeletons            
Museo do Departamento de Anatomia 492           Edificio Biomedicas III - sala 4, A. Lineu Prestes 2.415, Cidade Universitaria - Sao Paulo - CEP 05508-900       818-7360 (phone and fax)    
Musuo Nazionale di Antropologia ed Etnologia, Universita di Firenze, Italy 481 261 220 unclaimed indigents from Florence hospital death records data compiled by Silvia Boccone Laboriatori di Antropologia,  Universita' di Firenze, via del Proconsolo, 12, 50122 Firenze, Italy              39 0552398065   
Mutter Museum, College of Physicians of Philadelphia 9 6 3 skulls, pathological? biographical information accompanying skeleton   19 South 22nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103   Phone: 215-563-3737 ext 242, Fax: 215-561-6477   
National Anthropological Museum              
National Museum of Health and Medicine >130     fetal, Civil War, forensic, pathological   allows the unique opportunity to re-examine historical classification systems and disease diagnoses 6900 Georgia Avenue and Elder Street, NW, Building 54, Washington, D.C. 20307-5001             202-782-2202 or 202-782-2203    
National Science Museum             http://www.kahaku.go.jp/english/curation_frm.html
Okamoto Research Laboratory of Dentistry 0       live patients at least 9000 teeth of known age and sex Okamoto Research Laboratory of Dentistry, Yonago 683, Japan
Palmer Collection 2200     "rare oddities, remarkable trauma and unusual pathologies" very few   1000 Brady Street, Davenport, Iowa  52803   563-884-5245 or fax 563-884-5616   
Pretoria Collection >196     South Africa (white and black).  Cadavers from medical school (white) or unclaimed bodies (black) known individuals   Posbus 2034, Pretoria, 0001, Suid-Afrika        27 12 319-2438   
Quakers             School of Conservation Sciences, Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus, Poole, Dorset, England, UK, BH12 5BB  +44 (0) 1202 595277    
Royal College of Surgeons of England Museums           Collections consist of the Odontological Museum, Hunterian Museum, and the Wellcome Museums.  Most pathological, but the Odontological Museum has many known age skulls collected by Sirs Tomes for study of dental development. Museums, The Royal College of Surgeons of England, 35/43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PN, United Kingdom                  020 7869 6570 fax 020 7869 6564  
Shellshear Museum ?         Australia, Melanesia, Oceania, Middle East (Pella collection) Tel: (02) 9351 4529, Fax: (02) 9351 6915  
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History: Huntington Collection >300         both black and white  
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History: Terry Collection 1728  ? 874 715 Leftover skeletons from medical school cadaver classes   I unsexed and unidentified skeleton  
Spitalfields       Christ Church, Spitalfields coffin plate, baptism records, burial registers, death certificates   The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK                  +44 (0)20 7942 5000
Spitalfried Hof St. Johann 83 41 42        
SR Atkinson Library of Applied Anatomy and the P&S Comparative Anatomy collections >1500     autopsies and biological warehouses.   skull only; also includes the James A Campbell Jr collection of 'hundreds' of glass plate dental radiographs Institute of Dental History and Craniofacial Study, University of the Pacific School of Dentistry, 2155 Webster Street, San Francisco, CA 94115                (415) 929-6627  
St Bride's 56 26 30 Church of St Bride, Fleet Street, London   orginally 250, many unlabelled during WWII move  
St. Thomas Anglican Church 80     Partial excavation of St. Thomas Anglican Church cemetery, burials from 1821-1874 coffin nameplates cross-checked with burial register (no birth or death certificates) Of 595 individual skeletons excavated, about 80 were able to be personally identified. Most materials have been reburied, but measurements and tissue samples are available for study.  Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4L9
State Museum for Anthropology, Dresden, Germany       Philippines, New Guinea, Malaysia, New Ireland      
Stirrup Court cemetery 19; 6 identified 4 2 Southern Ontario   offers information on the early settlers of the area: their demography, health, stature, social structure, etc.  
Suchey pubic collection 1225 739 273 modern individuals autopsied at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, County of Los Angeles death and birth certificates    
Terry Collection >1500     unclaimed bodies and donated.      
The Jikei University School of Medicine >90     Japan     3-25-8 Nishi Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0003                         81-3-3433-1111ext2121 
The University Museum, University of Tokyo ~300     Japan     Web Address
Trotter Collection >133           314-935-5207
Tubingen, Germany >108 67 41 Southwest Germany     Institut fur Gerichtlich Medizin, Nagelestr. 5,D-72074 Tubingen, Germany
Universidad Complutense >132 >60 >72 exhumed from cemetery in Madrid     Unidad Docente de Antropología, Departamento de Biología Animal I, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 - MADRID      (+34 1) 394 4941
University of Florida Collection       forensic cases      
University of Indianapolis           mentions human skeletal remain curation on web site. Department of Biology, University of Indianapolis, 1400 E. Hanna Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46227-3697                       317-788-3486 (office), 317-788-3565 (lab)
University of Iowa-Stanford Collection >1,100     amassed from individuals born in the mid to late 1800s   the remains of people that lived prior to major improvements in modern health care practices including the advent of antibiotics and epidemiological science  
Universidade de Sao Paulo Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas 336     1914-1940      
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology              
University of Turin 1064 384 680 Italian, cadavers from city prisons and hospitals 712 have records   Department of Human Anatomy, Corso M.D'Azeglio 52, 10126 Torino, Italy               +39 0116707723        fax +39 0116707732     +39 011 6706711   
Vienna Collection >50,000     mostly pathological     Altes Allgemeines Krankenhaus (Old General Hospital), Spitalgasse 2, A-1090 Vienna / Austria 
William M. Bass Donated Skeletal Collection 344 279 86 forensic cases and donated bodies, low SES documentation White, Black, European, Hispanic. "Largest skeletal collection of modern Americans"; data on 1400 individuals 250 South Stadium Hall, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-0760              423-974-4408 
Wise family cemetery 1 1 0 Southern Ontario      
Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology 18 4 3 private collection   many skeletal elements, most known-age are fetal and children 215-898-3826  
Zimbabwe Museum of Human Sciences Osteological Collection 153 (skulls)     Black Zimbabwean Population     P.O. Box Cy33 Harare, Zimbabwe                263-751797

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Medical University , Department of Forensic Medicine, Szeged , Hungary

Castellana C, and Kosa F (2001) Estimation of fetal age from dimensions of atlas and axis ossification centers. Forensic Science International 117:31-43.

Banaras Hindu University

Singh G, Singh S, and Singh SP (1975) Identification of Sex from Tibia. Journal of the Anatomical Society of India 24:20-24.

Singh S, Singh G, and Singh SP (1974) Identification of sex from the ulna. Indian Journal of Medical Research 62:731-?

Singh S, and Singh SP (1972) Identification of sex from the humerus. Indian Journal of Medical Research 60:1061-1066.

Belgian femurs

Defrise-Gussenhoven E, and Orban-Segebarth R (1984) Generalized distance between different thigh-bones and a reference population. In GN van Vark and WW Howells (eds.): Multivariate Statistical Methods in Physical Anthropology. Dordrecht , Holland : D. Reidel Publishing Company, pp. 89-99.

British Museum of Natural History

Powers R (1962) The Disparity between known age and age as estimated by cranial suture closure. MAN 62:52-54.

Broadbeach Osteological Collection

Elvery MW, Savage NW, and Wood WB (1998) Radiographic study of the broadbeach aboriginal dentition. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 107:211-9.

Brush-Bolton Collection

Scoles PV, Salvagno R, Villalba K, and Riew D (1988) Relationship of iliac crest maturation to skeletal and chronological age. Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics 8:639-644.

Chiang Mai University Thailand

King CA (1997) Osteometric assessment of 20th century skeletons from Thailand and Hong Kong . MA Thesis, Florida Atlantic University , Boca Raton , Florida .

King CA , Iscan MY, and Loth SR (1998) Metric and comparative analysis of sexual dimorphism in the Thai femur. Journal of Forensic Sciences 43:954-958.

Coimbra

Cogoluenhes A (1984) Travail sur les humerus de la collection anthropologique de l'Universite de Coimbra . Antropol. Port. 2:5-8.

Cunha E (1995) Testing Identification Records: Evidence from the Coimbra Identified Skeletal Collections Chapter IX. In S Saunders and DA Herring (eds.): Grave Reflections: Portraying the Past through Cemetery Studies. Toronto : Canadian Scholars Press.

Santos AL , and Roberts C (2001) A picture of tuberculosis in young Portuguese people in the early 20th century: a multidisciplinary study of the skeletal and historical evidence. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 115:38-49.

Dart Collection, Department of Anatomical Sciences

Asala S (2001) Sex Determination from the Head of the Femur of South African Whites and Blacks. Forensic Science International 117:15-22.

Bidmos M, and Asala S (2005) Calcaneal measurement in estimation of stature of South African blacks. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 126:335-342.

Hunt DR , and Albanese J (2005) History and demographic composition of the Robert J. Terry anatomical collection. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 127:406-417.

Kieser J, Gebbie T, and Ksiezycka K (1996) A mathematical model for hypothetical force distribution between opposing jaws. Journal of the Dental Association of South Africa 51:701-705.

Kieser JA, Cameron N, and Groeneveld HT (1987) Evidence for a secular trend in the Negro dentition. Annals of Human Biology 14:517-532.

Kieser JA, Moggi-Cecchi J, and Groeneveld HT (1992) Sex allocation of skeletal material by analysis of the proximal tibia. Forensic Science International 56:29-36.

Loth SR, and Henneberg M (1996) Mandibular ramus flexure: a new morphological indicator of sexual dimorphism in the human skeleton. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 99:473-485.

Loth SR, and Henneberg M (2001) Sexually dimorphic mandibular morphology in the first few years of life. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 115:179-186.

Patriquin M, Loth SR, and Steyn M (2003) Sexually dimorphic pelvic morphology in South African whites and blacks. Homo. 53:255-62.

Patriquin ML, Steyn M, and Loth SR (2002) Metric assessment of race from the pelvis in South Africans. Forensic Science International 127:104-13.

Steyn M, and Iscan MY (1998) Sexual dimorphism in the crania and mandibles of South African whites. Forensic Science International 98:9-16.

Steyn M, and Iscan MY (1999) Osteometric next term variation in the humerus: sexual dimorphism in South Africans. Forensic Science International 106:77-85.

"Drago Pervic" Institute of Anatomy Osteological Collection

Percac S, and Nikolic V (1992) Structural Analysis of the Mandible by Quantitative computed Tomography. Syrgical and Radiological Anatony 14:155-158

FACES Lab

Ballard ME (1999) Anterior femoral curvature revisted: Race assessment from the femur. Journal of Forensic Sciences 44:700-7.

Florida Atlantic University

King CA (1997) Osteometric assessment of 20th century skeletons from Thailand and Hong Kong . MA Thesis, Florida Atlantic University , Boca Raton , Florida .

Frassetto collection

Gualdi-Russo E, and Russo P (1995) A new technique for measurements on long bones: Development of a new instument and techniques compared. Anthropologischer Anzeiger 53:153-182.

Gualdi-Russo E, Tasca R, and Brasili P (1999) Scoring of nonmetric cranial traits: a methodological approach. Journal of Anatomy 195:543-550.

Galloway Osteological Collection

Luboga S (2000) Supernumerary lumbar vertebrae in human skeletons at the Galloway Osteological Collection of Makerere University, Kampata. East African Medical Journal 77:16-9.

Stojanowski CM, Seidemann RM, and Doran GH (2002) Differential skeletal preservation at Windover Pond: Causes and consequences. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 119:15-26.

Grant Collection

Bedford ME, Russell KF, Lovejoy CO, Meindle RS, Simpson SW, and Stuart-Macadam PL (1993) Test of the multifactorial aging method using skeletons with known ages-at-death from the Grant Collection. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 97:113-125.

Kurki H (2005) Use of the first rib for adult age estimation: a test of one method. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 15:342-350.

Rogers TL (1999) A visual method of determining the sex of skeletal remains using the distal humerus. Journal of Forensic Sciences 44:57-60.

Rothschild BM, and Rothschild C (1998) Recognition of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy in skeletal remains. Journal of Rheumatology 25:2221-7.

Hamann-Todd Collection

Alunni-Perret V, Staccini P, and Quatrehomme G (2003) Reexamination of a measurement for sexual determination using the supero-inferior femoral neck diameter in a modern European population. J Forensic Sci 48:517-20.

Budinoff LC, and Tague RG (1989) Anatomical and developmental bases for the ventral arc of the human pubis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 82:73-79.

Goodman D (1997) Subclinical Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 79-A:1489-1497.

Hershkovitz I, Rothschild BM, Dutour O, and Greenwald C (1998) Clues to recognition of fungal origin of lytic skeletal lesions. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 106:47-60.

Holland TD (1991) Sex Assessment Using the Proximal tibia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 85:221-227.

Holland TD (1992) Estimation of adult stature from fragmentary tibias. Journal of Forensic Sciences 37:1223-1229.

Hunt DR , and Albanese J (2005) History and demographic composition of the Robert J. Terry anatomical collection. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 127:406-417.

Marino EA (1995) Sex estimation using the first cervical vertebra. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 97:127-133.

Meindl RS (1990) Reliability of age at death in the Hamann-Todd collection: validity of subselection procedures used in blind tests of the summary age technique. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 83:349-357.

Mensforth RP, and Latimer BM (1989) Hamann-Todd collection aging studies: Osteoporosis fracture syndrome. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 80:461-479.

Rothschild BM, and Rothschild C (1995) Treponemal Disease Revisited; Skeletal Discriminators for Yaws, Bjel, and Veneral Syphilis. Clinical Infectious Diseases 20:1402-1408.

Rothschild BM, and Rothschild C (1998) Recognition of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy in skeletal remains. Journal of Rheumatology 25:2221-7.

Santos AL , and Roberts C (2001) A picture of tuberculosis in young Portuguese people in the early 20th century: a multidisciplinary study of the skeletal and historical evidence. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 115:38-49.

Scoles PV, Latimer BM, DiGiovanni BF, Vargo E, Bauza S, and Jellema LM (1991) Vertebral Alterations in Scheuermann's Kyphosis. Spine 16:509-515.

Zindrick MR, Knight GW, Satori MJ, Carnevale TJ, Patwardhan AG, and Lorenz MA (2000) Pedicle Morphology of the Inmature Thoracolumbar Spine. Spine 25:2726-2735.

Hanged men

Pfeiffer S (1992) Cortical bone age estimates from historically known adults. Zeitschrift fur Morphologie und Anthropologie 79:1-10.

Harvie family cemetery

Pfeiffer S (1992) Cortical bone age estimates from historically known adults. Zeitschrift fur Morphologie und Anthropologie 79:1-10.

Highland Park Cemetery

Rothschild BM, and Rothschild C (1993) 19th Century Spondyloarthropathy Independent of Socioeconmic Status: Lack of Skeletal Collection Bias. Journal of Rheumatology 20:314-319.

Hong Kong

King CA (1997) Osteometric assessment of 20th century skeletons from Thailand and Hong Kong . MA Thesis, Florida Atlantic University , Boca Raton , Florida .

Hungarian Natural History Museum , Anthropology Department

Hershkovitz I, Greenwald C, Rothschild BM, Latimer B, Dutour O, Jellema LM, Wish-Baratz S, Pap I, and Leonetti G (1999) The elusive diploic veins: Anthropological and anatomical perspective. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 108:345-358.

Institute of Anatomy , Aachen , Germany

Prescher A, and Bohndorf K (1993) Anatomical and radiological observations concerning ossification of the sacrotuberous ligament: is there a relation to spinal diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH)? Skeletal Radiology 22:581-585.

Institute of Forensic Medicine , University of Vienna , Austria

Szilvassy J, and Kritscher H (1990) Estimation of chronological age in man based on the spongy structure of long bones. Anthropologischer Anzeiger 48:289-298.

Institute of Legal Medicine, Bari , Italy

Introna F, Di Vella G, and Campobasso CP (1998) Sex determination by discriminant analysis of patella measurements. Forensic Science International 95:39-45.

Institute of Normal Human Anatomy - University of Siena Craniological Collection

Bastianini A, Guidotti A, Hauser G, and De Stefano GF (1985) Variations in the method of the division of the hypoglossal canal in Sienese skulls of known age and sex. Acta Anatomica 123:21-24.

Brasili-Gualandi P, and Gualdi-Russo E (1989) Discontinuous traits of the skull: Variations on sex, age, laterality. Anthropologischer Anzeiger 47:239-250.

Guidotti A (1984) Morphmetrical considerations on occipital condyles. Anthropologischer Anzeiger 42:117-119.

Guidotti A, Bastianini A, De Stefano GF, and Hauser G (1986) Variations of supraorbital bony structures in Sienese skulls. Acta Anatomica 127:1-6.

Susanne C, Guidotti A, and Hauspie R (1985) Age changes of skull dimensions. Anthropologischer Anzeiger 43:31-36.

Johns Hopkins Fetal Collection

Hershkovitz I, Greenwald C, Rothschild BM, Latimer B, Dutour O, Jellema LM, Wish-Baratz S, Pap I, and Leonetti G (1999) The elusive diploic veins: Anthropological and anatomical perspective. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 108:345-358.

Maxwell Museum Documented Collection, University of New Mexico

Falsetti A (1995) Sex assessment from metacarpals of the human hand. Journal of Forensic Sciences 40:774-6.

Stojanowski CM (1999) Sexing potential of fragmentary and pathological metacarpals. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 109:245-252.

Medicolegal Institute at Bhopal in Central India

Purkait R, and Chandra H (2004) From the study of the surface area of the occipital condyles and of skull volume resulted that the surface area is not proportional to skull volume. The measurements were conducted on a collection of 424 male and 317 female skulls. It was observed that the two condyles are rarely symmetrical and that also flat condyles appear. Bi-partitioned condyles can be divided into three types: roof-like bipartitions, simple bipartitions and total bipartitions. Forensic Science International 146:25-33.

Yavuz MF, Iscan MY, and Cologlu AS (1998) Age assessmentnext term by rib phase analysis in Turks. Forensic Science International 98:47-54.

Mediterranean Caucasoid Collection

Pellico LG, and Camacho FJF (1992) Biometry of the Anterior Border of the Human Hip Bone: Normal values and their use in Sex Determination. Journal of Anatony 181:417-422.

Museum Vrolik (DeFroe collection), Department of Medicine, Academic Medical Center

Baljet B (2002) Aspects of the history of Osteogenesis imperfecta (Vrolik's syndrome). Annals of Anatomy 184:1-7.

Baljet B, and Oostra R (1999) Digital Data and the 19th century Teratology collection. Journal of Audiovisual Media in Medicine 22:186-194.

Oostra R, PF D, Baljet B, Verbeeten B, and CM H (1999) A 100 year old Anatomical Specimen Presenting with Boomerang-like Skeletal Dysplsia Diagnostic Strategies and Outcome. American Journal of Medical Genetics 85:134-139.

Oostra RJ, Baljet B, Dijkstra PF, and Hennekam RC (1998a) Congenital anomalies in the teratological collection of the Museum Vrolik in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. I: Syndromes with multiple congentital anomalies. American Journal of Medical Genetics 77:100-115.

Oostra RJ, Baljet B, Dijkstra PF, and Hennekam RC (1998b) Congenital anomalies in the teratological collection of the Museum Vrolik in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. II: Skeletal dysplasias. American Journal of Medical Genetics 77:116-134.

Oostra RJ, Baljet B, and Hennekam RC (1998c) Congenital anomalies in the teratological collection of the Museum Vrolik in Amsterdam , The Netherlands. IV: Closure defects of the neural tube. American Journal of Medical Genetics 80:60-73.

Oostra RJ, Baljet B, Verbeeten BW, and Hennekam RC (1998d) Congenital anomalies in the teratological collection of the Museum Vrolik in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. III: Primary field defects, sequences, and other complex anomalies. American Journal of Medical Genetics 80:45-59.

Oostra RJ, Baljet B, Verbeeten BW, and Hennekam RC (1998e) Congenital anomalies in the teratological collection of the Museum Vrolik in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. V: Conjoined and acardiac twins. American Journal of Medical Genetics 80:74-89.

National Museum of Health and Medicine

Barbian LT, Sledzik PS, and Nelson AM (2000) Case studies in pathology from the National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Annals of Diagnostic Pathology 4:170-173.

National Science Museum

Kasai K, and Kawamura A (2001) Correlation between buccolingual inclination and wear of mandibular teeth in ancient and modern Japanese. Archives of Oral Biology 46:269-273.

Okamoto Research Laboratory of Dentistry

Aoki K (1990) Morphological studies on the roots of maxillary premolars in Japanese. Shika Gakuho: The Journal of the Tokyo Dental College Society 90:79-97.

Morita M (1990) Morphological studies on the roots of lower first molars in Japanese. Shika Gakuho: The Journal of the Tokyo Dental College Society 90:55-71.

Pretoria Collection

Loth SR, and Henneberg M (2001) Sexually dimorphic mandibular morphology in the first few years of life. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 115:179-186.

Patriquin M, Loth SR, and Steyn M (2003) Sexually dimorphic pelvic morphology in South African whites and blacks. Homo. 53:255-62.

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