ANTHRO 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Garbology, Biological Anthropology, Collegehumor
14 Sep 2016
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Forensic anthropology: the study of human biological remains associated with legal contexts, ex. They excavate mass graves to try to identify victims. Guatemalan government killed over 300,000 native indians in a two-year period. The united nations are making them help the people whose lives they have effected by helping to rebuild towns, pay compensation, and get them back to as normal of a life that they can. The 9/11 site used forensic anthropologists to go through the remains and rubble to preserve any evidence that was left behind. Centralia (pa cemetery: university of tennessee body farm. They bury real bones to see the effects of different soils, amounts of rain and how the environment effects decomposition. Reconstructs past human behavior through the material remains of a culture. (excavation: garbology study of garbage. Midin where a group of people throws their trash: forest archaeology. Management of archaeological sites and cultural resources in national parks.
