ANTH 196 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Deciduous Teeth, Permanent Teeth, Taphonomy
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Bioarcheology: the study of skeletal remains from archaeological sites in order to determine the biological context of life & death from a cultural & archaeological perspective. Mortuary archaeology, health & disease studies, subsistence change. Forensic anthropology: the study of skeletal remains & other evidence in order to determine the causes and context of death with respect to legal and criminal matters. Mass fatalities, individual criminal cases, war crimes/ war dead. Laboratory processing biological taphonomy and curation. In forensic cases, the data constitute legal evidence & a chain of custody must be established. Biological profile includes: age, sex, ancestry, injury/ disease, age: As individuals grow, their skeleton/ teeth change: most change between 0-21. It is possible to calculate age from the eruption pattern of teeth. Milk teeth or permanent teeth: fusion of the epiphyses (cid:894)(cid:862)(cid:271)o(cid:374)y e(cid:374)ds(cid:863)(cid:895) to the shaft of the (cid:271)o(cid:374)e as a(cid:374) i(cid:374)di(cid:272)ator of age in children from before birth 10-12, sex:
