Exam #2:
1. A person with subpubic concavity is female.
True
2. Subadult age estimation is based on _____________ and is generally ________ accurate than adult age estimation.
Growth, more
3. Sex assessment is based
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Exam #2:
1. A person with subpubic concavity is female.
True
2. Subadult age estimation is based on _____________ and is generally ________ accurate than adult age estimation.
Growth, more
3. Sex assessment is based on the fact that
Males are generally larger than females
4. The pubic symphysis of an older adult individual will appear:
Flat pubic face that is porous with bony protrusions
5. If we assume a racial view of human prehistory is a correct reflection of what actually happened in our past, then
this suggests there were long periods of geographic isolation separating different populations of humans.
True
6. Which of the following skeletal features is not used to estimate adult age:
Sciatic notch
7. Social race refers to:
The self-classification of individuals into racial categories
8. Which of the following can NOT be used to estimate the sex of human remains?
DNA
Tooth size
Cranial shape and size
Morphology of the knee joint
9. You are trying to estimate sex for a human pelvis but the pubic bone is completely missing. Which of the following
could you use to estimate sex?
Sciatic notch
10. Sex is the same thing as gender in humans.
False
11. All of the following techniques can be used to estimate age in subadults EXCEPT:
Dental formation
Dental eruption
Epiphyseal closure
Cranial suture closure
12. Assessing sex for female skulls for which the individual is older than 60 years can be difficult because:
Female skulls become more masculine with age due to postmenopausal changes
13. All of the following are features of the cranium that are useful for sex estimation EXCEPT:
Mastoid process
Supraorbital margins
Glabella
Ventral arc
14. Alveolar prognathism is associated with which ancestral affiliation?
African
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15. Which method for estimating age at death in adult skeletons uses counts of whole and partial osteons to generate
the age estimate?
Bone histology
16. You find some fully adult, likely middle-aged skeletal remains in your lab. Which of the following techniques could
you use to more accurately age this individual?
Appearance of the pubic symphysis
17. The ear-shaped joint between the sacrum and each os coxa is called the _______________, and can be used to
estimate age at death in adult skeletons.
Auricular surface
18. A person with a ventral arc is male.
False
19. A skull with a large mental eminence is probably female.
False
20. Shovel shaped incisors are a dental trait usually possessed by:
Asians and Native Americans
21. Young individuals usually have a pubic symphysis that is:
Billowed and with a poorly define outline
22. If you do not have a complete skeleton and would like to estimate stature, you must use:
A regression method
23. As a method oaf adult age estimation, cranial suture closure produces highly accurate estimates with small ranges
False
24. Sex assessment mostly uses the size and morphology of the ________.
Pelvis
25. Which anatomical region produces the most accurate sex estimates?
Pelvis
26. The cranial suture method of estimating age is the most accurate methods we discussed.
False
27. ________ is how close a measured value is to the actual value while _________ is how close the measured values
are to one another.
Accuracy, precision
28. Which of the following is not a pelvic sex indicator
Mastoid process
29. Typical adult age estimating techniques are based on:
Deterioration of joint surfaces
30. When estimating the sex of a complete set of juvenile skeletal remains, the most accurate part of the body is the:
Juvenile remains cannot be assessed accurately for sex
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