ANT 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Rigor Mortis, Autopsy, Main Source
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Forensic anthropology: the processing and analyzing of human skeletal remains within the. Otzi was also mummified in the same manner. Factors affecting bone deterioration: skeletal elements (structural density, taxon, size, bone construction, exposure duration, depositional microenvironment, ie: the type of habitat/vegetation in the burial site and/or surrounding area, localized conditions will affect skeletal remains, etc. differently. The body farm: founded by dr. william bass, department of anthropology at the university of tennessee, Knoxville: began in may of 1981 a) I-81 was the first body to be used at the body farm: uses, used bodies for experiments relating to cod (cause of death) and physical impact/trauma to skeleton, used bodies to examine insect/bacteria activity post mortem. Injuries to body: trephination-common prehistorically drilling small holes in the crania, gunshot wounds, fractures, healed fractures, depress fractures, cut marks, bony spurs (1) healed fractures; not fatal, but do cause permanent damage to bone a)
