The Next Cafe:

Date:	January 6, 2010, 6:30pm
Speaker:	Sam Stout, Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University
Title:	Estimating the Age of Skeletal Remains
Summary:	Forensic anthropologists assist in the identification and analysis of unknown human remains. Along with the determination of the sex, stature and biological ancestry of an individual, their age at death is an important piece of demographic information for their identification. In this presentation I will discuss some of the methods employed by forensic anthropologists to estimate age at death from human skeletal remains, including methods based upon bone microstructure (bone histology), an area in which I specialize. Examples of actual forensic cases will also be included.
More about our speaker:	Sam D. Stout received his Ph.D. from Washington University, St. Louis, and is currently Professor of Anthropology at the Ohio State University and Emeritus Professor at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where he served a Director of the Department of Anthropology Human Skeletal Identification Laboratory. He specializes in histomorphometric (microscopic) analysis of bone, and its applications in skeletal biology, bioarchaeology, paleopathology, and forensic anthropology.

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