Some time ago I began slowly collecting information relating to known anthropological skeletal collections. The task quickly fell beneath more pressing obligations, but I am happy to see that someone else has had much more success.
Highfantastical.com has a really wonderful database of skeletal collections, searchable by research that has been conducted using each collection. The database is necessarily a work in progress, but the format looks wonderful. For example, here is a list of references based on work done on the Raymond Dart skeletal collection, housed at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Bidmos MA and Asala SA. 2003. Discriminant function sexing of the calcaneus of the South African whites. Journal of Forensic Sciences 48(6):1213-1218. Link.
Bidmos MA and Asala SA. 2004. Sexual dimorphism of the calcaneus of South African blacks. Journal of Forensic Sciences 49(3):446-450. Link.
Bidmos MA and Dayal MR. 2004. Further evidence to show population specificity of discriminant function equations for sex determination using the talus of South African blacks. Journal of Forensic Sciences 49(6):1165-1170. Link.
Dayal MR and Bidmos MA. 2005. Discriminating sex in South African blacks using patella dimensions. Journal of Forensic Sciences 50(6):1294-1297. Link.
Schmitt A, Murail P, Cunha E, and Rougé D. 2002. Variability of the pattern of aging on the human skeleton: evidence from bone indicators and implications on age at death estimation. Journal of Forensic Sciences 47(6):1203-1209. Link.
Thanks to Karen Rosenberg and Milford Wolpoff for passing along the link.
