A Validation Study of Blunt Force Impact to the Human Cranium

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Main Author:	Juarez, Jessica Kristy
Language:	English
Published:	University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK 2009
Subjects:	Physical Anthropology blunt force cranium
Online Access:	http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242834279

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spelling	ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-ucin12428342792021-08-03T06:13:23Z A Validation Study of Blunt Force Impact to the Human Cranium Juarez, Jessica Kristy Physical Anthropology blunt force cranium 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 offracture patterns produced by blunt-force. Scientists continue to undertake experimental researchin an effort to streamline the study of trauma analysis for future implementation. One suchattempt was carried out as part of a series of experiments by Dr. E.S. Gurdjian and colleagues inthe 1950s. They established a grid-system of several descriptive areas on the cranium mostlikely to be involved in violent impacts and through experimental cranial impacts theydetermined the site of impact based on the fracture patterns they observed. The current researchis a blind case study employing this grid-system on specimens from the Hamann-ToddOsteological Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. This research tests thevalidity of Gurdjian's method of locating the site of impact using the descriptive areas on acollection of crania that sustained blunt-force trauma under unknown circumstances. Statisticalanalyses of the observational results in the current research support the validity of Gurdjian'smethod. These conclusions suggest that Gurdjian's method may be used in the practice ofdetermining the point of impact on crania with fractures caused by blunt-force, although furtherstudies, with larger sample sizes, should be completed to validate this method on a larger scalebefore it can be systematically employed by forensic anthropologists. 2009-08-04 English text University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242834279 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242834279 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: some rights reserved. It is licensed for use under a Creative Commons license. Specific terms and permissions are available from this document's record in the OhioLINK ETD Center.
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A Validation Study of Blunt Force Impact to the Human Cranium

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