Human asian male skull

Compare Now. This accurate cast of an adult human skull makes a great prop, or a haunting addition to any home decor. Cast in two pieces: skull and mandible. Each skull is cast and finished by hand to assure the highest quality.

All items sold on this website are reproductions replicas. No real or natural bone material is available on this site. This is an excellent example of a skull from an Asian individual with a metopic suture. A metopic suture is the union point for the two halves of the frontal bone that fuse during skeletal development and is usually obliterated completely fused with no trace of the suture by the age of 6. However it is not unusual to find this suture in adults. Ancestry assessment can be difficult to assess, however there are certain skull features that can point to an ancestral group.

Features inherited from generation to generation are expressed in the morphology shape of the human skull. Many of these characteristics have evolved in response to environmental factors and analysis of the features of the skull can thus give an indication of the ancestry of an individual. Forensic anthropologists examine the morphology of the skull in great detail and take measurements of multiple individual facets.

All items sold on this website are reproductions replicas. No real or natural bone material is available on this site. Although the concept of race assessment is controversial, certain features of the skull may be of use in differentiating ancestral groups for forensic purposes. Some key traits for the analysis of geographical ancestry include palatal shape, maxillary incisor shape, profile, presence or absence of nasal spine, and shape of nasal sill, among others.