🧪 Anthropology Forensic Anthropology Simulation
Interactive forensic-anthropology simulator: adjust the five Walker cranial morphoscopic traits (glabella, supraorbital margin, mastoid process, nuchal crest, mental eminence) on a 3D skull and watch the logistic sex-estimation probability update in real time.
This simulation introduces the application of anthropological techniques to crime scene investigation. It demonstrates how skeletal remains can be analyzed to determine sex — one of the core questions in forensic anthropology alongside age, ancestry, and cause of death — by scoring five cranial robusticity traits (glabella, supraorbital margin, mastoid process, nuchal crest, mental eminence) on the ordinal 1-5 scale developed by Walker (2008). Drag the sliders to morph a 3D skull between gracile and robust extremes and watch a logistic sex-estimation probability update from the composite trait score in real time, exactly as a forensic anthropologist would score an unidentified cranium against a reference chart.
This simulation introduces the application of anthropological techniques to crime scene investigation. It demonstrates how skeletal remains can be analyzed to determine age, sex, ancestry, and cause of death – a key aspect of forensic anthropology.
2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install