Estimation of stature from long bones of American Whites and Negroes

Abstract

The estimation of stature from length of long bones of the free limbs is often an important contribution to the identification of unknown human remains. The need for identification was realized, perliaps more keenly than ever before in the history of mankind, during the United States Repatriation Program. This program was established by an Act of Congress in 1944. It incladed the identification (when possible) of unknown war casualties and was assigned to the American Graves Registration Service under Quartermaster Corps. Identification Laboratories were established in suitable parts of the world and the aid of physical anthropologists was enlisted.Interest in stature estimation from long bones is not new but the number of actual investigations on the subject is relatively few. The most significant report in the last century was that by Rollet in 1888. He measured stature and lengths of the long bones of 50 male and 50 female French cadavers ranging in age from 24 to 99 years and presented all pertinent data including not only the methods of measurement but also the individual measurements and the resultant tables for stature estimation. Stature measurements were taken "generally in the week which followed death" with the cadaver lying on a graduated stretcher. The soft parts were then dissected away

Altura do joelho como medida alternativa confiável na avaliação nutricional de idosos

“…O trabalho de Trotter & Gleser 21 , publicado há mais de seis décadas, demonstra que estimar estatura a partir de ossos longos vem sendo objeto de estudos há muito tempo e, nesse período, várias equações estimativas foram desenvolvidas a partir da medida da altura do joelho 3,4,8,[22][23][24] . O que tem possibilitado o uso dessa medida para estimar a estatura de idosos, tanto em países latino-americanos como europeus 3,22,23 …”

Body size, body proportions, and encephalization in a Middle Pleistocene archaic human from northern China

“…Reconstructed stature using this formula is 168.78 Ϯ 4.30 cm. [In previous analyses ( ¶, 22) stature for this specimen was calculated by using both the Trotter and Gleser U.S. white female (23) and ''mongoloid'' male (24) formulae, which produced an estimate of Ϸ168 cm. ]…”

Interpretation of ante-mortem stature estimates in South Africans

“…A multitude of regression formulae for South Africans (e.g., [1], [2], [3] and [4]) and other populations (e.g., [5], [6], [7] and [8]) have been developed for this purpose. An estimate of ante-mortem stature, along with the assessment of age, sex and race is given in almost all forensic reports on unknown human skeletal remains [9].…”