Abstract: Course Objectives: This course provides a broad overview of forensic anthropology, an applied field of biological anthropology that seeks to recover, identify, and evaluate human skeletal remains within a medico-legal context. In this course, students will learn: to identify the bones of the human skeleton; recovery techniques and initial treatment of forensic material; the techniques used by forensic anthropologists to determine age at death, sex, ancestry, and stature from the human skeleton; how pathological and occupational markers can help identify skeletal remains; and how forensic anthropologists estimate time since death and interpret blunt, sharp, and gunshot trauma to bone. Finally, students will become familiar with the application of forensic anthropology to human rights missions, military identifications, and mass fatalities. This course will not make students competent to carry out forensic anthropological investigations themselves, but rather will help students develop an informal appreciation for, and basic familiarity with, the field of forensic anthropology. The course competencies may be found at: http://www.dist.maricopa.edu/cgi-bin/cpr.pl?trm=20086&crs=ASM 275&inst=99.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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