ANTH 1120 Lecture 10: ANTH Week 10 Lecture (Ch. 12)
18 Nov 2016
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Thomas dwight: father of american forensic anthropology: osteology collection at the warren museum of anatomy at harvard university. William bass and the body farm: seeing how long it takes a body to be skeletonized. Step by step: determining that body is human. Fairly easy with skull, harder when it is just other remains. First step should be to call the forensic anthropologist, non-scientists might have a hard time: numbering the skeletons. Next step is to determine how many individual bodies are being examined. Determining exact numbers is associated with airline crashes, terrorist bombings. Looking for r"epeats" and sorting by age might be useful: sexing the skeleton. Table 12. 5 shows number of bodily landmarks that can be used for determination of sex. With skulls, it is about size and robustness (inion is more de ned in men than it is in women) Dif cult to determine sex of a child, almost impossible, dna testing is required: racing the skeleton.
