ART 1001 Lecture : 1001 Lecture 3
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Fa collect human remains at crime scenes true. Fa look at trauma on bones to establish bullet trajectory or number of stab wounds true. Fa testify in court about injuries in court true. Fa run, interpret, and testify about dna false. Fa can establish a biological profile from the skeleton true. Forensic anthropology: forensics- pertaining to legal proceedings or formal debate, forensic anything means putting knowledge to use in the court of law. Pathologist: cause of death- reason someone dies ***cod**, manner of death- how the death came about, natural, homicide, suicide, accidental, unknown, mechanism of death- physiological disruption that resulted in death, brought about by cod, blood loss, hemmorrhage. Examples: cause: gsw, mech: exsanguination, manner: homicide, cause: blunt trauma- car crash, mech: massive hemorrhage, manner: accident. Anthropologist- phd or ma, academic, not medical: do not determine cod, mod, or mechod, perform skeletal analyses.
