Module 12: Forensic Anthropology

Question 1

3 Axes

Answer 1

• longitudinal (superior-inferior)
• anteroposterior
• mediolateral

Question 2

3 plane

Answer 2

• transverse (cross section/crosswise)
• coronal (front and back)
• sagittal (lengthwise)

Question 3

palmar vs plantar

Answer 3

palmar - kamay
plantar - paa

Question 4

True or False
Dorsal can be used to the back of both hand and foot

Answer 4

True

Question 5

What are the cracks called on the skull?

Answer 5

sutures

Question 6

True or False
There are only paired bones in the skull

Answer 6

False. Paired and unpaired

Question 7

Significance of fontanelle

Answer 7

To allow compression of skull during birth

Question 8

• single bone in the front of the neck
• no articulation

Answer 8

hyoid

Question 9

How does the examination of hyoid used in forensics?

Answer 9

• it can be checked if there is strangulation
• sometimes it is fused some not
• muscles around are checked for hemorrhage

Question 10

What are the 5 segments of vertebral column?

Answer 10

• cervical
• thoracic
• lumbar
• sacrum
• coccyx

Question 11

True or False
Female and male have diff no. of ribs

Answer 11

False

Question 12

3 kinds of ribs

Answer 12

• true
• false
• floating

Question 13

Why do ribs end with cartilage?

Answer 13

To allow expansion for breathing

Question 14

What phalanx is absent at the thumb?

Answer 14

intermediate

Question 15

Pelvic girdle

Answer 15

connects upper and lower body

Question 16

Forensic anthropology

Answer 16

deals with analyses of human skeleton

Question 17

5 States of skeleton

Answer 17

• complete
• fragmented
• commingled
• burned
• decomposed

Question 18

Questions to ask

Answer 18

1. Is it bone? (wood, shells, rocks, seeds)
2. Is it human?
3. Is it modern or archaeological?
   
   • if modern: minimum no. of individual, biological profile(s), id

Question 19

How can you know MNI?

Answer 19

• based on the highest number of unique elements

Question 20

Biological profile

Answer 20

• ancestry/ethnicity
• sex
• age
• stature

Question 21

Ancestry

Answer 21

• based on broad geographic groupings
• important to know because methods for the subsequent analyses are population-specific

Question 22

OSSA

Answer 22

optimized summed scored attributes

Question 23

Dimorphic characteristics

Answer 23

• wider pelvis in female
• sharp jaw in male
• larger mastoid processes in male

Question 24

3 age range

Answer 24

• juvenile
• young adult
• older adult

Question 25

indicators of age using bones

Answer 25

juvenile - developing
adult - deterioration

Question 26

some specific indicator

Answer 26

old:
fused pelvis
fused epiphysis
deteriorated pubic symphysis

Question 27

2 Methods to estimate stature

Answer 27

• anatomical method (height of bones + soft tissue corrections)
• mathematical method (used of regression formula)

Question 28

True or False
Equation is used by all.

Answer 28

False. It i s population and sex-specific

Question 29

Different trauma analysis

Answer 29

• antemortem
  No healing:
• perimortem (SFtrauma, BFT, BallisticT)
• postmortem (insect and rodent activity)

Question 30

Others that are checked

Answer 30

• non-metric variations
• nutrient deficiencies
• stress indicators (porotic hyperostosis)
• diseases

Question 31

Application of forensic anthropology

Answer 31

• inspection of skeletal trauma
• establish demography of victims
• check for indicators of low socio-economic status

Question 32

Baka mabonus
Sino yung may quote sa last slide ni sir?

Answer 32

Jerome Bailen