CRIM 356 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Epiphyseal Plate, Forensic Anthropology, Confocal Microscopy
13 May 2016
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Information from the skeleton: macroscopic (what you can see with your eyes) analysis: age, sex, disease, genetic traits, peri-mortem (around death) injury, taphonomy. Imaging methods: x-ray, mri, computed tomography, confocal microscopy. Aging the skeleton: easier to age a young child to a teenager then it is an adult, children: 2 sets of teeth, teenagers: epiphyseal fusion, should not be able to t one epiphyseal to any other bone. Stature estimation: sex (men tend to be taller, generation to generation, height varies. Week 3 forensic anthropology and pathology: good nutrition: you will be taller than your respective parent, population speci c, age speci c, individual bones vary in length. Age related development of the skull: very early on: skull in many separate pieces which will fuse together to forma single skull. Deliberate skull deformation: head binding: a cultural effect. Other aging techniques: pubic symphysis chance, auricular surface change, related to age-related degeneration of these two joints.
