Richard Jantz
Biographic Data
| ID | 89638 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Jantz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Jantz |
| SIGNATURE | JANTZ R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Differences in the Shape of the Frontal Bone between 20th-Century Euro-Americans and Germans
Geometric morphometrics is a very useful but rarely applied concept in forensic anthropology. It uses information on the shape of an object for data analysis. For this study, geometric morphometrics has been used to compare the shape of the frontal bone between a German and a Euro-American sample (both early 20th century). Results were compared using size-only, shape-only and size-and-shape combined. Results show that the frontal shapes of the tw…
Machines are Winning
Stephen D. Ousley left us too damn early. We were not expecting it, so the hole he left is felt, in one way or another, nearly every day. The many words you are about to read cover only a hair's breadth of his contributions and only scratch the surface of his enormous influence on a wide variety of topics in the field and the many research methods used by forensic and biological anthropologists today. To honor Steve Ousley, his friends and collea…
Steven D. Ousley
Early in his career, Steven D. Ousley established his view on the need for biological anthropologists to provide empirical support for their findings. He, like many of his mentors and contemporaries, became acutely aware of the need for more statistical rigor in forensic anthropology. His research and the scholarly products he produced explored the relationship and linkage between method and theory, between what can be observed, what can be expla…
What Are We Really Estimating in Forensic Anthropological Practice, Population Affinity or Ancestry
While American forensic anthropologists often state that they estimate ancestry, is that what they are really estimating? Although typological terminology, the oids, was replaced with continental terminology, the change was linguistic rather than substantive. The American population is comprised largely of immigrants. Genetic data suggests a high degree of admixture within American population groups. Further, data from documented skeletal collect…
Amelia Earhart and the Nikumaroro Bones
The unknown fate of Amelia Earhart continues to fascinate. One of the most tantalizing clues involves skeletal remains found on Nikumaroro Island in 1940. Some have summarily dismissed these bones as the remains of Amelia Earhart because they were assessed as male by Dr. D. W. Hoodless, principal of the Central Medical School, Fiji, in 1940. The most recent such dismissal is that of Cross and Wright (2015), who argue that Hoodless’s methods were …
Understanding race and human variation
American forensicanthropologists uncritically accepted the biological race concept from classic physical anthropology and applied it to methods of human identification. Why and how the biological race concept might work in forensic anthropology was contemplated by Sauer (Soc Sci Med 34 1992 107–111), who hypothesized that American forensic anthropologists are good at what they do because of a concordance between social race and skeletal morpholog…
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Archeology
Understanding race and human variation
American forensicanthropologists uncritically accepted the biological race concept from classic physical anthropology and applied it to methods of human identification. Why and how the biological race concept might work in forensic anthropology was contemplated by Sauer (Soc Sci Med 34 1992 107–111), who hypothesized that American forensic anthropologists are good at what they do because of a concordance between social race and skeletal morpholog…
Physical
Archeology
The Anthropology Research Facility
Understanding race and human variation
American forensicanthropologists uncritically accepted the biological race concept from classic physical anthropology and applied it to methods of human identification. Why and how the biological race concept might work in forensic anthropology was contemplated by Sauer (Soc Sci Med 34 1992 107–111), who hypothesized that American forensic anthropologists are good at what they do because of a concordance between social race and skeletal morpholog…
Amelia Earhart and the Nikumaroro Bones
The unknown fate of Amelia Earhart continues to fascinate. One of the most tantalizing clues involves skeletal remains found on Nikumaroro Island in 1940. Some have summarily dismissed these bones as the remains of Amelia Earhart because they were assessed as male by Dr. D. W. Hoodless, principal of the Central Medical School, Fiji, in 1940. The most recent such dismissal is that of Cross and Wright (2015), who argue that Hoodless’s methods were …
What Are We Really Estimating in Forensic Anthropological Practice, Population Affinity or Ancestry
While American forensic anthropologists often state that they estimate ancestry, is that what they are really estimating? Although typological terminology, the oids, was replaced with continental terminology, the change was linguistic rather than substantive. The American population is comprised largely of immigrants. Genetic data suggests a high degree of admixture within American population groups. Further, data from documented skeletal collect…
Differences in the Shape of the Frontal Bone between 20th-Century Euro-Americans and Germans
Geometric morphometrics is a very useful but rarely applied concept in forensic anthropology. It uses information on the shape of an object for data analysis. For this study, geometric morphometrics has been used to compare the shape of the frontal bone between a German and a Euro-American sample (both early 20th century). Results were compared using size-only, shape-only and size-and-shape combined. Results show that the frontal shapes of the tw…
Machines are Winning
Stephen D. Ousley left us too damn early. We were not expecting it, so the hole he left is felt, in one way or another, nearly every day. The many words you are about to read cover only a hair's breadth of his contributions and only scratch the surface of his enormous influence on a wide variety of topics in the field and the many research methods used by forensic and biological anthropologists today. To honor Steve Ousley, his friends and collea…
Steven D. Ousley
Early in his career, Steven D. Ousley established his view on the need for biological anthropologists to provide empirical support for their findings. He, like many of his mentors and contemporaries, became acutely aware of the need for more statistical rigor in forensic anthropology. His research and the scholarly products he produced explored the relationship and linkage between method and theory, between what can be observed, what can be expla…
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