ANT205H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Greenstick Fracture, Taphonomy, Surface 2
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Ant205 lecture 10 manner & mode of death. Manner and mode of death: blunt and sharp force injury and gunshot wounds. Cause, manner and mode of death: coroner/medical examiner, cause - disease or injury --> death, manner - type of death, homicide, suicide, accident, natural causes, undetermined, mode - method by which death occurs, shooting, strangling, etc. Cause of death: pathologist - authority, describes soft tissue changes to vital centres, precipitated death. Forensic anthropologist: many fatal injuries do not affect bone, massive bone injuries - but no death, leave cause of death to pathologists, provide info and assist determination of cause and manner. Identify, describe, record bone trauma: angles of entry, direction and force of blows, patterns and timing of events, am trauma vs. pm damage, healed vs. unhealed. Force applied to surface of body: with/without instrument, usually head, or body comes into contact with surface causing injury, e. g. fall, patterns aid interpretation of injury.
