Physical Anthropology Web Resources

Demography and Health, Evolution, Genetics, Growth, Medical Anthropology, Paleoanthropology, Primates, Skeletal Biology

 

 

Skeletal anatomy and pathology

The Visible Human Project
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html
For cross-wise slices of the soft tissue of the human body, both male and female, this is the site.

Osteo Interactive
http://library.med.utah.edu/kw/osteo/
A site featuring osteology, paleopathology and forensics.

eSkeletons
http://www.eskeletons.org/
This interactive site has multiple views of the bones of the human body.

The Skull Module, California State University, Chico
http://www.csuchico.edu/anth/Module/skull.html
At this site, one can ‘grab’ the bones of the skull and rotate them.

Bone and Joint Pathology Index
http://webpath.dmsf.edu.ph/BONEHTML/BONEIDX.HTM
This is a collection of images from X-ray, MRI, micrographs or gross anatomy photos.

Pathology of the skeleton
http://www.sbu.ac.uk/~dirt/museum/skeleton.html
This site offers a large collection of x-rays of pathologies affecting the human skeleton.

Skeletal Clinical Studies Program
http://csdb.nidcr.nih.gov/csdb/Clinical.htm
US National Institutes of Health’s site for the Craniofacial and Skeletal Diseases

Musculoskeletal Diseases
http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/c5.html
A collection of lines for most bone conditions

Marching through the Invisible Man and Woman
http://www.crd.ge.com/esl/cgsp/projects/vm/ (man)
http://www.crd.ge.com/cgi-bin/vw.pl (woman)
Polygonal models of skin, bones and bowels

Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomical Variation
http://www.vh.org/Providers/Textbooks/AnatomicVariants/AnatomyHP.html
Images, text and terms of cardiovascular, muscular and nervous systems

Forensics

Forensic Anthropology Center, University of Tennesee, Knoxville
http://web.utk.edu/~anthrop/index.htm

DNA Forensics Problems from the Human Biology Project
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/human_bio/problem_sets/DNA_forensics_1/DNA_forensics.html
A series of problems to introduce techniques for analysis

Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine and Molecular Biology
http://www.vifm.org
This Australian site features information on DNA testing (such as paternity and twins) and forensic biology.

Dental Anthropology

Dental Microwear Site
http://comp.uark.edu/~pungar/
For the study of microwear of teeth

Associations

American Association of Physical Anthropologists
http://physanth.org/

Dental Anthropology Association
http://monkey.sbs.ohio-state.edu/DAA/index.htm

American Board of Forensic Anthropology
http://www.csuchico.edu/anth/ABFA/

American Academy of Forensic Sciences
http://www.aafs.org/

Forensic Science Society
http://www.forensic-science-society.org.uk/

Canadian Society of Forensic Science
http://www.csfs.ca/index.htm


Midwest Bioarchaeology and Forensic Science Association
http://www.luc.edu/depts/anthropology/BARFAA/

Journals

International Journal of Dental Anthropology
http://ijda.syllabapress.com/

Canadian Society of Forensic Science
http://www.csfs.ca/journal/journal.htm

 

 

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