Human Identification through the study of osseus remains

Resumen

It is said that the forensic anthropology is the application of science to the judicial process. Daily there are osseus human remains in Bolivia, which up until the year 2003 were addressed by Forensic Medicine Services or other instances as the University or outside laboratories with poor results, so that since 2005 the first cases to the IDIF La Paz (Center pilot) were includes, implementing the laboratory of forensic anthropology for the resolution of these cases in forensic matters, where an extreme challenge was the set of formulas and methods that are more adapted to our population, which in essence is high peruana.This article presents suggestions concerning the methodology employed by the laboratory of forensic anthropology of the La Paz Bolivia IDIF, for the examination of skeletal remains, human identification purposes, whose results are evidence for the Court, related to sex, biological age, descent, height, species, the minimum number of individuals and other aspects inherent to the death.
Keywords: Osseus remians, tissue, analysis, human identification, anthropological methodology, ancestry.