ANTHROP 1AA3 Chapter Notes -Paleopathology, Hip Bone, Forensic Anthropology
1 Apr 2013
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Human osteologists study osteology the branch of anatomy that deals with the structure and function of bones. Ability to reconstruct biological profile or osteobiography. Applied to medico-legal context, this is forensic anthropology. Able to reconstruct age at death, sex, indicators of biological ancestors, and estimate of living stature. Meant to shed light on the person"s way of life and what happened over the span of their life. Males have larger and more robust teeth and skull. Stature formulas developed by biological anthropologists can calculate the size of a human"s length from estimates obtained from skeletal remains. Bioarchaeology field that deals with the excavation and analysis of human skeletal remains from archaeological contexts. Palaeodemography takes the osteobiographical data for all the individuals in an archaeological sample and analyzes those data to learn something about a past population. Key features include age, sexual structure of the population, examination of the rate of infant and childhood mortality.
