Role of The Forensic Anthropology and Forensic Nursing to Estimation of Sex and Age of Kurdish Mass Grave in Hatra near Mosul (Nineveh) City

Introduction: the importance of recognizing the unknown deceased individual have been well documented. However, generally long bones from sub adult cases are used to estimate age and sex, still in some cases, stature is also helpful or even critical for identification. In fact, few published regression equations are known for consultation in such cases.Materials and methods: All measurements through present investigation were taken in Centimeters. Forearm length and the Maximum Femoral Length were estimated by distance from most proximal to the most distal point of left femur and Forearm bones.Results: the left Femur length mean was 31.40 (SD 11.91) cm, and 24.02 (SD 9.12) cm these differences statistically significant (t-test, P< 0.001). In males, the femur length was 37.16 (SD 10.82) cm. In females was 31.91 (SD 10.20) cm. regarding forearm length, in males, length was 27.63 (SD 7.84) cm. In females was 24.69 (SD 8.59) cm.Conclusions: current study is the first attempt to estimate the sex and age by depending only on long bones in Kurdistan even whole Iraq. Determination of sex, age and identification of human being of deceased person may be the study showed that possible and be practiced by using aforementioned Forensic bone procedures.