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1
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Statute 872.01

Dealing in dead bodies

A

Whoever buys, sells or has possession of a dead body to buy or sell or traffic it will be guilty of a 1st degree misdemeanor

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2
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Statute 872.01

Dealing in dead bodies

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You can only own human skeleton remains for teaching purposes

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Statute 872.02 injuring or removing a tomb stone

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3rd degree felony when you purposely destroy a tomb or monument and anything related to it.

2nd degree felony when you tamper with the actual skeleton remains

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4
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872.05 unmarked human burial

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less than 75 years its the medical examiners responsibility. If it is more than 75 the state archeologist involved

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5
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Taphonomy traits for teaching

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-Hardware holds mandible & cranium
-Drill holes
- commercial bleaching
-More teeth more expensive skeleton
-Patina
-sticker/writing
-table fractures (bottom of skull)
-chip teeth
dirty appearance from dust

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6
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birth years of skeltons at William Bass collection

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1892-2016

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7
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documented collection

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Knowing who the individual was and their medical history

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8
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What are some issues with the collection demographics

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1) They are all donated
2) Mainly old skeletons not many young skeletons
3) Common group White male, white women, and black male

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9
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Why doesn’t ancestory method not work at William Bass collection?

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There isn’t enough Spanish or asian skeletons

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10
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University of Tennessee maceration area

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They used crockpots with steam instead of water to help preserve the bone

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11
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University of Tennessee old anthropology lab

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Lacked security and was located under a football stadium

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12
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UT new anthropology building

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-Named after William Bass

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13
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UT Body farm

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2 or 3 acres (kind of small)
located behind a medical hospital
double fenced

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14
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When do rodents chew on bone ?

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after a year of decompostion

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15
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who gets trained at UT

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Law enforcement and CSI

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16
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Owning human remains federal v. state

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No federal law that prevents ownership of human remains.

State laws have restrictions Georgia, Tennessee and New York

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17
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origin of teaching material. original supplier for human remains

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India

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18
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Why did we stop using Indias remains

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Ethical issues poor country they though they were killing children to make profit off their skeleton. law change in 1987.selling their own body before they died. digging up skeletons from cemetery .very poor country

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19
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The second main supplier became and why did they stop ?

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China eventually stopped because of the olympics

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20
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Where do we get our skeletons from today ?

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Europe but it is hard to get good quality remains

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21
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Where do you purchase skeleton remains?

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  • Flea market
  • Second hand stores
  • Ebay (use to be major source)no soft tissue can be adhered 2016 banned from human skeleton sales
  • online stores
22
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Ebay example

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Women tries to sell mummy on eBay port huron, Michigan on oct,2006. remains had soft tissue . cops where called by a lady in NC to take the bid off.

23
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eBay example investigation

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they investigated the skeleton to see if it was forensic or non forensic. It was a old mummified skeleton used to teach gross anatomy had chemicals on the remains to preserve it

24
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MNI stand for ?

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Minimum # of individuals

25
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duplication

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no two bones are the same

26
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cominging

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bones from more than one individual mixing

27
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When you sort out remains you determine

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MNI and comining

28
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Joint surface concurrence

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ensuring that articular surface of bones match. joint has to match joint damage

29
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Anatomical landmarks

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precise points used for measurments

30
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Anthropometry

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measuring both living and dead

31
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osteometry

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measuring of the skeleton and its parts

32
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Sliding Caliper

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measuring points close together (most common tool )

33
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Spreading calipers

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measurig points of a skull that cant be taken in a staright line

34
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Osteometric

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measuring longbone and other large bones (lengths)

os coxa & scapula

35
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Tape measure

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record circumfrence of longebone shafts

36
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Forsdic is

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systematic computer program at UT .we can measure cranial ,mandible, post cranium

37
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Determination of sex

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we determine biological sex when looking at the skeleton

38
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Sexing subadults

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not biologicaly mature

can not tell gender in kids until puberty

39
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Sexual dimorphism

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one sex is larger than the other
gracile=female
robust=male

40
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verticle diameter of humeral head

FEMALE

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female less than 43mm

41
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verticle diameter of humeral head

Sex intermidiate

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sex disasters 44-46mm

42
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verticle diameter of humeral head

MALE

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male 47mm greater

43
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Single measurment used when

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only during mass disasters not really acurate for sex determination

44
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Subpubic angle sacrum for males

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less than 90 degrees (v)

45
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Subpubic angle sacrum females

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greater than 90 degrees (u)

46
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greater sciatic notch

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narrow in males

wide in females

47
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Pelvic intel shape female

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females wide and flarring iliac bones and pelvic intel brim is wider and oval from side to side

48
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Pelvic intel shape male

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narrow and heart shaped

49
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auricular surface male v. female

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males flatter

female raised

50
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preauricular sulcus

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groove between auricular surface and greater sciatic notch. occurs more frequently in females and if present in males is poorly developed

51
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stature

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over estimated in males and underestimated in females typical range 6-8 inches

52
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stature methods by thomas dwight

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propping up bones in modeling clay . we do not use clay today and we barely ever have the whole skeleton to do sature

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