Golden proportion in skeletonized skull

• Grant number: 12/06134-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2012
• End date: July 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Dentistry
• Principal Investigator: Rogério Nogueira de Oliveira
• Grantee: Margarida Santini Szabo
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Odontologia (FO). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Human identification has always been a concern due to social, criminal, civil, or administrative action resulting from it. There are numerous methods used for this purpose, but still, the most widely used are those that are supported by physical anthropology because of its convenience and low cost. Many of these methods use craniometric parameters. It is known that the proportions aureas are present in nature in various shapes, including the skull, and that can keep the relations between craniometric and cephalometric points. The main objective of this work is to understand these relations by checking their existence in a collection of skulls.(AU)