The long-standing problem of estimating the age and sex of subadult skeletal remains has been significantly "solved" with the advances in understanding the growth and development patterns in the skeletons of young people. Kyra Stull, an anthropologist and forensic researcher at University of Nevada, Reno, and Danielle McLeod-Henning, a physical scientist at NIJ, share more about this research with NIJ writer and host Jim Dawson.

Reading and Resources from NIJ:

• Meeting the Forensic Challenges of Subadult Skeletons
• Investigation of subadult dental age-at-death estimation using transition analysis and machine learning methods
• A Radiographic Database for Estimating Biological Parameters in Modern Subadults

Other Resources:

• Subadult Virtual Anthropology Database from the University of Nevada, Reno