ANTH 1006 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Crime Scene, Forensic Anthropology, Forensic Science
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Anth 1006 , lecture 6 , forensic archaeology / humanistic science. A forensic science, is the application of archaeological principles, techniques and methodologies in a legal context. Systematic study of the material remains of the human behavioral (culture) past. Framing a series of questions about the how and why of human behavior. Processing a crime scene is inherently destructive - so is archaeology. Spatial analysis and the sequence of events. Differences between forensic anthropology and forensic archaeology. Current crime scene recovery techniques and the task of evidence accumulation. Brown university anthropologists , went in to help look into disaster. Fire at rock concert, many young people died. Guatemala - people went in and committed mass genocide on the town. Exhumation carried in the presence and assistance of family members. Testifies at the saddam hussein"s trial (2006) Showed that events were not the cause of battlefield deaths , but of the firing squad executions.
