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A Validation Study of Blunt Force Impact to the Human Cranium
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Juarez, Jessica Kristy
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242834279
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Year and Degree
2009, MA, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences : Anthropology.
Abstract
Trauma analysis is often a necessary component of the forensic anthropological casereport. This type of analysis is especially important when determining the site of impact of fracture patterns produced by blunt-force. Scientists continue to undertake experimental research in an effort to streamline the study of trauma analysis for future implementation. One such attempt was carried out as part of a series of experiments by Dr. E.S. Gurdjian and colleagues in the 1950s. They established a grid-system of several descriptive areas on the cranium most likely to be involved in violent impacts and through experimental cranial impacts they determined the site of impact based on the fracture patterns they observed. The current research is a blind case study employing this grid-system on specimens from the Hamann-Todd Osteological Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. This research tests the validity of Gurdjian's method of locating the site of impact using the descriptive areas on a collection of crania that sustained blunt-force trauma under unknown circumstances. Statistical analyses of the observational results in the current research support the validity of Gurdjian's method. These conclusions suggest that Gurdjian's method may be used in the practice of determining the point of impact on crania with fractures caused by blunt-force, although further studies, with larger sample sizes, should be completed to validate this method on a larger scale before it can be systematically employed by forensic anthropologists.
Committee
Alan P. Sullivan, PhD (Committee Chair)
Anthony J. Perzigian, PhD (Committee Member)
MariaTeresa A. Tersigni-Tarrant, PhD (Other)
Pages
69 p.
Subject Headings
Physical Anthropology
Keywords
blunt force
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cranium
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Juarez, J. K. (2009).
A Validation Study of Blunt Force Impact to the Human Cranium
[Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242834279
APA Style (7th edition)
Juarez, Jessica.
A Validation Study of Blunt Force Impact to the Human Cranium.
2009. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242834279.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Juarez, Jessica. "A Validation Study of Blunt Force Impact to the Human Cranium." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242834279
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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A Validation Study of Blunt Force Impact to the Human Cranium by Jessica Kristy Juarez is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
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