Physical Anthropology & Comparative Anatomy Group
Head of laboratory:
Research in the Shellshear Museum focuses on forensic osteology of the Sydney region. Specific projects involve the identification of fragmented bone as human or non-human, sex determination of juvenile human skeletons and teeth, the identification of populations using multivariate methods, non-metric variation and the forensic and clinical consequences of variation of the paranasal sinuses in a Melanesian population. Other research includes the investigation of the palaeopathology of a Bronze Age population from Pella in Jordan.
Keywords: Forensic osteology; skeletal identification; dental morphometrics
Staff & Students:
Mrs. Ann Macintosh (Hon. Ass.)
Emer. Prof. Richard Wright (Hon. Ass)
Sarah Croker (PhD)
Marcus Robinson (MMed)
Christina Adler (Hon)
