1849 |
Bones and teeth remains used as evidence of murder given by a forensic team led by anatomy professor Dr. Jeffries Wyman. A doctor named Parkman paid a visit to a Mr. Webster to collect money owed him. Parkman was never seen again. Webster was a suspect without a body. Some burned bones and false teeth were found at the medical school where Webster taught. Wyman studied the remains and testified that the bones matched a person of Parkman's size and age. Parkman’s dentist recognized the dentures. Webster was found guilty of murdering Parkman |
1876 |
Cesare Lombroso publishes L’Uomo Delinquente (Criminal Man). He believed that criminals had physiological features which characterized them as criminals [Ref. 1, p. 99] |
1878 |
Date of publication of Thomas Dwight's medico-legal essay which raised questions on estimating stature from skeletal remains without measuring long bone proportionality, and how indicative of sex, height and age is the sternum |
1894 |
George A. Dorsey, a student of Dwight, appears to be the first to determine that the head of the humerus is a better indicator of sex than the head of the femur |
1920s |
Michael Gerasimov develops a repetitive method of measuring the soft tissue on the heads of corpses, eventually collecting enough empirical data to attempt a facial reconstruction [Ref. 1, p. 168] |
1939 |
W. M. Krogman publishes his Guide to the Identification of Human Skeletal Material in the F.B.I. Law Enforcement Bulletin. Beginning of the modern era in forensic anthropology. He also published the first book on forensic anthropology, The Human Skeleton in Forensic Medicine |
1952 |
The Trotter and Gleser formulae for stature estimation were published and used in the identification of American dead of the Korean War |
1957 |
Skeletal growth stages, the basis of Forensic Anthropology, identified by American pathologists Thomas Mocker and Thomas Stewart |
