Exam 1 Anthropology

Question 1

biological profile

Answer 1

an assessment of the sex, age at death, height, racial affinity, and class level info

Question 2

epiphyseal line

Answer 2

a thin line of bony tissue that goes across the ends of the bone

Question 3

Epiphyseal plate

Answer 3

the growth plate in the bone

Question 4

ante mortem

Answer 4

occuring before death

Question 5

perimortem

Answer 5

occurring around the time of death

Question 6

post mortem

Answer 6

occurring after death

Question 7

What are wear patterns?

Answer 7

wear patterns are patterned anomalies that appear on people from habits or occupations. Like smoking pipes wearing down teeth, or a writer bump on someone’s finger

Question 8

Pubic symphysis is what?

Answer 8

The measured surface changes in the pubic bone that indicate possible age

Question 9

What is the pelvic inlet?

Answer 9

the circular hole that is inside of the pelvis

Question 10

What is the subpubic angle?

Answer 10

The angle in which the pelvis is located; indicating whether the pelvis is male or female

Question 11

sacral/coccyx curve

Answer 11

the angle in which the tale bone is in relation to the pelvis/sacrum. Males usually having a closer coccyx than in female pelvises

Question 12

Allometry

Answer 12

the ability to estimate the stature of a person from long bone lengths in proportion to the other bones discovered

Question 13

Taphonomy

Answer 13

the study of what happens to organisms from the time of death until it is in the laboratory

Question 14

Equation for calculating male stature

Answer 14

Height in inches = (1.880 x femur length) + 32.010

Question 15

Equation for calculating female stature

Answer 15

Height in inches = (1.945 x femur length ) + 28.679

Question 16

Blunt force trauma

Answer 16

the signs of impact from blunt objects (hammers, bones, bricks, rocks)

Question 17

sharp force trauma

Answer 17

the signs of impact from sharp objects (knives, sharp rocks, axes)