Anthropology

Question 1

Study of humans, human biology,and human culture

Answer 1

Anthropology

Question 2

What do anthropologists do?

Answer 2

Skeletal recovery, skeletal analysis, personal identification, Circumstances of death, as well as homicides,suicides, and huge accidents

Question 3

Searching the area and recording evidence, archaeological recovery,and collecting evidence

Answer 3

Skeletal recovery

Question 4

Questions to be asked when searching a crime scene

Answer 4

Is the remains bone, Is it human remains, are the remains forensic, are they recent?

Question 5

What can be mistaken for bones?

Answer 5

Wood, White plastic tubing, porous stone, pottery

Question 6

What is most commonly misidentified as human bones?

Answer 6

deer,bear,pig,dog,cow,and horse bones

Question 7

What is one main lesson learned in anthropology?

Answer 7

Never assume anything!

Question 8

State of preservation, body modifications, personal belongings or artifacts, location of remains, condition; color; and shape of remains.

Answer 8

Time period indicators

Question 9

Two steps in skeletal analysis

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One or more individuals and what did they look like?

Question 10

Determined by searching for multiples

Answer 10

One or more individuals

Question 11

Biological profile, sex determination, age estimation at death, ancestry or race, saturation estimation

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What they looked like

Question 12

Use of the pelvic bone or skull to biological gender

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Sex determination

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Age range of subadults or or adults.

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Age estimation

Question 14

Unique skeletal traits or dental records used to determine identification

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Personal identification

Question 15

Used to inform the public in the rebuilding of face

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Facial reconstruction

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Damage present, Occurred before or after death, cause of damage

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Circumstances of death

Question 17

Healing

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Antemortem

Question 18

No healing, consistent colouration

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Perimortem

Question 19

Cracked, different colouration

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Postmortem

Question 20

What are some trauma classifications?

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Blunt force, sharp force and projectile and gun shot

Question 21

The identification of human remains in a medico-legal context, Focused on the skeleton remains to determine age, gender, race and other conditions.

Answer 21

Forensic Anthropology

Question 22

Gender, age at death, race, height, other class-level info

Answer 22

Biological profile

Question 23

What are some scenarios in forensic anthropology?

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Graves, Fire damage, Mass graves and mass disasters, global identity of victims of war,and human rights atrocities.

Question 24

Forensic anthropologists tend to not quantify the strength of an osteological identification

Answer 24

Mohan and Daubert Standards towards anthropologists