ANTHROP 3FA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Hyoid Bone, Necrophilia, Radiography
17 Jun 2016
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In many cases, bodies have been obliterated to conceal identity if victim; done in variety of ways. Fs developed techniques to assist in positive identification; use is dependant on remain conditions. Throughout history, bodies mutilated for rituals, punishment, conceal identity, brutality during murder, Aztecs of mexico: practised human sacrifice, blood offered as gods for gifts, victims took this as an honour , victim sat on stone alter, priests cut out heart w/ stone knife. English king henry viii: subjects convicted of treason would be hung, drawn, and quartered, hung until near death, disembowelled alive, genitals cut and burned, remains cut/quartered into parts to use as deterrent to those if they treasoned. Today mutilations done in variety of ways* with various tools, done during or after killing. To figure when cuts made: pathologists analyze tissue sample to see if tissue shows vital reaction, the reaction is reaction to damage, seen in if cuts made when alive.
