ANT 3520 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: George Parkman, Board Certification, Medical Jurisprudence
17 Feb 2016
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Anthropos- body, logos-study of: anthropology- an integrative comparative discipline that examines human biological/cultural diversity in all times and places. Name and describe the four subfields of anthropology, and the applied subdiscipline of forensic anthropology. Archaeological- study of human behavior by looking at remains. Biological- looks at humans as a biological organism, studies human variation. Can help id a person, especially with skeletonized/partially skeletonized remains. Can help determine what happened and when it happened. Approximately 1-2% of cases come before a forensic anthropology. Cases where remains cannot be id"ed by soft tissue, specifically in a medicolegal setting. What are the key elements of the formative, consolidation, and modern periods and the. Formative period- early 1800s-1938: thomas dwight, parkman case of 1849, leugert case of 1897, the 30 year gap after the leugert case, hamman-todd collection (1912-1938, terry collection (1914-1965) Consolidation period- 1939-1971: wilton krogman fbi bulletin, identification of wartime bodies- wwii, korean, vietnam.
