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Online Lecture: Features of Male and Female Skulls Table Online Activity- Determining gender and ancestry using skulls Notes and completion of activity , DUE AT END OF PERIOD. Cranium Features. Many things can be deduced from the features of a skull EXP: Gender and Ethnticity - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Online Lecture: Features of Male and Female Skulls Table

Online Lecture: Features of Male and Online Lecture: Features of Male and Female SkullsFemale Skulls

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Online Activity- Determining gender Online Activity- Determining gender and ancestry using skullsand ancestry using skulls

– Notes and completion of activity, Notes and completion of activity, DUE AT END DUE AT END OF PERIODOF PERIOD

Page 2: Online Lecture: Features of Male and Female Skulls Table

Cranium FeaturesCranium FeaturesMany things can be deduced from the Many things can be deduced from the features of a skullfeatures of a skull– EXP: Gender and EthnticityEXP: Gender and Ethnticity

Take notes on the features in this power Take notes on the features in this power point, then using your notes and the table point, then using your notes and the table linked to the agenda, complete the online linked to the agenda, complete the online activity and read the forensics story that activity and read the forensics story that followsfollows

Page 3: Online Lecture: Features of Male and Female Skulls Table

Male vs FemaleMale vs Female

Cranium Feature Male Female

Frontal Bone (forehead)

Lower/sloping More vertical and rounded

Temporal Ridge (obvious temporal ridge)

Large Small

Mastoid process Large Small (generally)

Supraorbital margin (ridge above eye)

Rounded Sharp

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Cranium Feature Male Female

External occipital protuberance

Generally present Generally absent

Nuchal crest (low ridge along the base of the cranium) (can only see from bottom)

Rugged, well defined

Smoother, even absent

Zygomatic process (cheek bones)

Extends past external auditory meatus

Does not extend past (generally)

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Male vs FemaleMale vs Female

Cranium Feature Male Female

Mandible Larger and more robust (thicker)

Smaller and lighter

Symphysis and mental eminence of mandible (chin)

Square Rounded (generally) or pointed

Ramus of mandible Straight Slanting

Sinuses (air ways) Larger Smaller

Teeth Larger Smaller