ANTH 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Remote Sensing, Forensic Anthropology, Archaeological Theory
9 Jun 2020
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Forensic archaeology is the application of archaeological theory and methods to the resolution of medicolegal and humanitarian issues. It may include methods involved in searching for, locating, surveying, sampling, recording and interpreting evidence as well as the recovery and documentation of human remains and associated evidence. They are normally requested to assist investigators and law enforcement in assessing the applicability of remote sensing techniques, developing recovering strategies, mapping recovery scenes, dating evidence, and reconstructing events/ It was long believed that outdoor contexts too quickly degraded evidence. Archaeology and physical anthropology are subfields of anthropology. So forensic anthropologists are trained in both skeletal analysis/archaeological methods. Location where human remains are found is often called a scene or recovery scene. Outdoor scenes involve remind that are on the surface, buried, submerged, involved in fires. Surface scenes occur when remains are deposited on the surface of the ground.
