It is merely a clue, but important in that it gives the working police officers a lead they did not have before. What is hoped for is that someone will call in and positively identify the person. Facial restoration is a clue at best, but a valuable clue when it leads to identification of the skeletal remains. The success rate warrants the continued use of this technique. The pelvis is considered the best area to determine the sex of a skeleton and the skull is presumably the second best area.
Exceptions occur frequently.
The only part of the skeleton from which the origin of race can be accurately determined is the skull. Through evaluation and comparison of the anatomical and morphological skull feature variations, and anthropometric measurements racial origin Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid, can be determined. The skull features of Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid races are shown in Table E-2. The low, broad nasal bones of the relatively unmixed black will tend towards the narrower, high-bridged one of the caucasoid with race mixture. Supraglabella 5.0 4.0 5.0 4.0 2.