A large modern Southeast Asian human skeletal collection from Thailand

Techataweewan, Nawaporn; Tuamsuk, Panya; Toomsan, Yanyong; Woraputtaporn, Worawut; Prachaney, Parichat; Tayles, Nancy

doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2017.06.030

Cited by 23 publications

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“…On the other hand, the Maxwell Museum Documented Collection assembled human remains from body donations, from cadavers from the Department of Anatomy of the University of New Mexico, and from the Office of the Medical Investigator, although 15% of the collection contains individuals of unknown provenance [53]. It is worth highlighting the skeletal collection at the KKU Human Skeleton Research Centre, composed entirely of body donations [54,55]. The collection's origin is, therefore, diverse, and is in line with past medical and anatomical traditions.…”

Section: Profiling Documented Collections: Where When and Howmentioning

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The Scientific Profiles of Documented Collections via Publication Data: Past, Present, and Future Directions in Forensic Anthropology

Cardoso

Campanacho

2022

Forensic Sciences

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Human osteological documented collections (DCs), also referred to as “identified collections”, are a valuable resource in biological and forensic anthropology, as they offer the possibility for hypothesis-driven research on sex and age-at-death estimation methods, human variability, and other morphometric-based parameters of individual identification. Consequently, they feature in many publications addressing the forensic sciences. The paper aims to explore the scientific profiles of DCs via publication using bibliometric data. The Dimensions databases were used to select the DC-related keywords in the title and abstracts of the publications. The search result analysis and extraction were conducted using VOSviewer. A total of 376 articles were found, published between 1969 and 2021 (November). The number of publications has increased over the years, specifically after 2011. The results show that most of the publications are associated with countries such as the United States and Portugal (the latter highlights the University of Coimbra), that the research tends to focus on human biological profiling (e.g., age, sex assessments), and that the journals with the highest numbers of publications were related to forensic sciences. This analysis shows a positive correlation between DC publications and the growth of forensic anthropology in recent years, with a slight shift towards the leading institutions that publish DC-based research. Hence, we can anticipate a change in the institutional leading profiles in the years to come.

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Section: Profiling Documented Collections: Where When and Howmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Scientific Profiles of Documented Collections via Publication Data: Past, Present, and Future Directions in Forensic Anthropology

Cardoso

Campanacho

2022

Forensic Sciences

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“…The study sample consists of 478 (f = 149; m = 329) individuals curated at Khon Kaen University’s (KKU) Faculty of Medicine and 138 (f = 49; m = 89) individuals curated at Chiang Mai University’s (CMU) Department of Forensic Osteology. The KKU collection is composed of approximately 745 known individuals who were acquired through body donation programs from 1979 to 2014 . The skeletal collection curated at CMU consists of more than 400 known individuals that were obtained from ongoing body donation programs.…”

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“…The skeletal collection curated at CMU consists of more than 400 known individuals that were obtained from ongoing body donation programs. Both collections are primarily composed of Buddhist monks, prominent faculty, middle‐age to elderly individuals, and some individuals who died from cancer, or trauma from vehicular accidents . In total, 616 individuals (f = 198; m = 418) aged 18–96 years old were included in the study and method development/refinement (Table ).…”

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Distal Humerus Morphological Variation and Sex Estimation in Modern Thai Individuals,

Tallman

Blanton

2019

Journal of Forensic Sciences

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Due to differential preservation, it is necessary to develop sex estimation methods on varied anatomical regions, including the distal humerus. Sexually dimorphic differences of the medial epicondyle angle, olecranon fossa shape, trochlear extension, and trochlear constriction have been documented in several non‐Asian groups. This study examines distal humerus morphological variation in 616 modern Thai individuals (f = 198; m = 418) 18–96 years old and tests the methods on a hold‐out sample of 152 individuals (f = 91; m = 61). The results indicate that population‐specific binary probit regression performs the best (74.1–100%), followed by composite scoring (77.0–90.1%), binary logistic regression (63.3–92.2%), and univariate sectioning points (37.7–90.1%). Age minimally effects the expression of the medial epicondyle angle in males, and trait scoring is susceptible to high intra‐ and interobserver error. While demonstrating relatively high sex biases, distal humerus morphology can be used to estimate the sex of Thai individuals when more sexually dimorphic regions are absent.

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“…The Thai sample consists of 150 individuals housed at Khon Kaen University’s (KKU) Faculty of Medicine, which consists of over 700 known individuals from the Issan region. This collection is comprised of adults of middle to elderly age that were obtained by the school’s body donation program (1979–2014) . Similar to the Native American sample used in the present study, the Japanese and Thai do not represent all populations of East and Southeast Asia, but were selected due to their large, modern, and well‐documented skeletal collections, which are unique in Asia .…”

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Nonmetric Cranial Trait Variation and Ancestry Estimation in Asian and Asian‐Derived Groups

Atkinson

Tallman

2019

Journal of Forensic Sciences

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Traditionally, precontact Native Americans and Asian groups have been conflated for aspects of the biological profile due to their distantly shared genetic history, although this grouping remains largely unexplored. This study examines craniomorphic variability to ascertain whether Asian groups can be differentiated from each other and from Asian-derived groups using more fine-tuned models. Cranial and mandibular data for 35 nonmetric traits were recorded on precontact Native Americans (n = 150) and modern Japanese (n = 150) and Thai (n = 150) individuals. Chi-square analyses indicate that all groups exhibit statistically significant differences in most traits. Additionally, crossvalidated binary logistic regression equations resulted in correct classification rates in the range of 65.0-93.3% and demonstrate that sex does not contribute to statistical models. Therefore, numerous traits provide discriminatory resolution that detects differences between the samples, thus highlighting the potential utility of nonmetric traits in identifying individuals beyond the traditional African, European, and Asian forensic ancestry groupings.

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A large modern Southeast Asian human skeletal collection from Thailand

Cited by 23 publications

References 13 publications

The Scientific Profiles of Documented Collections via Publication Data: Past, Present, and Future Directions in Forensic Anthropology

The Scientific Profiles of Documented Collections via Publication Data: Past, Present, and Future Directions in Forensic Anthropology

Distal Humerus Morphological Variation and Sex Estimation in Modern Thai Individuals,

Nonmetric Cranial Trait Variation and Ancestry Estimation in Asian and Asian‐Derived Groups

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