Skeletal Analysis

Through the Center for Human Identification, skeletal analysis and consultation are provided at no direct cost to submitting agencies.

Aspects of skeletal analysis may include:

  • Evaluation of forensic significance, (human vs. non-human, modern vs. historical/archaeological)
  • Biological profile: sex, age, ancestry, stature, antemortem pathology, and unique features
  • Documentation and analysis of trauma
  • Estimation of the postmortem interval
  • Positive identification or exclusion using antemortem records
  • Submission of appropriate skeletal samples to the DNA Identification Laboratory for analysis and inclusion in the FBI's Missing Persons CODIS Database

Attention Submitting Agencies:

Effective July 1, 2011 the UNT Center for Human Identification will require that samples submitted for DNA testing and entry into CODIS must be entered into NamUs (National Missing and Unidentified Persons Systems).  This was a stipulation set forth by NIJ who has provided the funding for this testing. We are asking that each agency, please enter all relevant information into NamUs prior to submission of samples.  Please contact George Adams at 817-735-5451 or B.J. Spamer at 816-792-9820 if you need further assistance.

 

CONTACT UNTCHI - ANTHROPOLOGY DIVISION AT UNT:

Mark Ingraham - Office Number 1-800-279-1339
E- mail:  osteology@unt.edu  

Photographs courtesy of Angilee Wilkerson, UNT URCM