Biological Profile

Year
1

Academic year
2019-2020

Code
02036262

Subject Area
Forensic Anthropology

Language of Instruction
Portuguese

Other Languages of Instruction
English

Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face

Duration
SEMESTRIAL

ECTS Credits
6.0

Type
Compulsory

Level
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado

Recommended Prerequisites

Human Osteology.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical and pratical classes with human skeletal remains.

Learning Outcomes

This discipline aims to teach the student to estimate the parameters of the biological profile of an individual (ancestry, sex, age and stature), that is, the generic identity factors of the reconstructive phase of identification.

Work Placement(s)

Syllabus

Biological profile assessment: ancestry, sex, age and stature. Methods and anatomical areas preferred for the estimation of each of the parameters. Differences between an assessment of the biological profile in the immature skeleton and the adult skeleton. The importance of the ancestry analysis as conditioning in the selection of methods to be used for the estimation of the other parameters. How to make an exclusion based on biological profile. The biological profile report.

Head Lecturer(s)

Eugénia Maria Guedes Pinto Antunes da Cunha

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 100.0%

Bibliography

Berg GE, Ta'ala SC. 2015. Biological Affinity in Forensic Identification of Human Skeletal Remains: Beyond Black and White. Boca Raton; CRC Press.

Blau S, Ubelaker DH (eds) 2016. Handbook of Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology (2^nd ed). New York; Routledge.

Buikstra J, Ubelaker D. 1994. Standards for data collection from human skeletal remains. Proceedings of a

Seminar at the Field Museum of Natural History, Arkansas Archaeological Survey Research Series no.44.

Fatteville: Arkansas Archaeological Survey.

Houck MM (ed) 2017. Forensic Anthropology, advanced forensic science series. London; Academic Press.

Iscan MY, Steyn M. 2013. The human skeleton in Forensic Medicine. 3rd ed. Springfield; CC Thomas.