ANT205H5 Lecture 10: Manner and Mode of Death
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Cause: disease or injury death: cardiac arrest. Manner of death type of death: homicide, suicide, accidental, natural causes, undetermined, death by misadventure, forensic anthropologist can assist. Mode: method by which death occurs: shooting, strangling. Pathologist: ultimate authority: describe soft tissue changes to vital centers. Heart, brain: precipitated death, sometimes consult forensic anthropologist. Angle of entry, direction and force of the blows. Pattern and timing of events: ante, peri or postmortem, healed or not healed. Fracture: discontuity: blunt trauma / impact, sharp. Concentric fracture: circles or arches that originate out from an impact point. Radiating fracture: emanate from and outward from the point of impact. Inbending: bone that is pushed inwards, fragments may still be in place, hinge fractures. Fragmentation: if hit hard and repeatedly. Kerf: groove made by cutting tool. Kerf floor: point at which cut terminates. If it dose not go completely through it: instrument entered the structure.
