A study on the standard for forensic anthropologic identification of skull - image superimposition

ABSTRACT

By means of X ray photography tests were made of 224 (100 males and 124 females) volunteer Chinese adults of han nationality to study the related regular patterns of superimposed projection of face landmarks onto the skull. On the basis of these tests, the present article reveals from a forensic antropology angle the related regular patterns of plane projection of the human face with its skull. Study shows that there exist a strict individual identity and exclusiveness in relation between the human face and skull (AU)