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1. What is the first step of a forensic anthropology investigation?
2. What are some objects that can fail the first step of the investigation?
3. What are two key differences between a human and dog skull, besides just the difference in size?
4. Besides the size, what is different about a human spine compared to a dog's spine?
5. How are these spinal differences related to the function of each species's spine? How do humans and dogs use their spines differently?
6. What are two physical differences between the limb bones of a human and those of a dog?
7. Based on the functions of the bones, why do humans and dogs have these differences in the limb bones?
8. Which part of the skeleton gives the best estimates for biological sex?
9. What is the functional reason for why this part of the skeleton is so different between females and males?
10. Aside from that part in question 9, what is a general difference between the bones of a male compared to the same bones of a female?
11. Does the bone you are examining on the previous page look more male or female? Look for as many visible traits as possible. What observations led to your conclusion?
12. In a few sentences, explain in your own words how forensic anthropologists can estimate race/ancestry in the United States even though science demonstrates that race is a cultural construct.
13. Which bone mentioned in lecture has two regions that could be used to estimate age-at-death?
14. What is the dental formula of a typical adult person, counting each type of tooth they have in one quadrant of their mouth?
15. There are two missing teeth, which you marked with Xs. What are the names of these teeth?
16. Based on your own brainstorming, what are two possible reasons that these teeth could be missing?
17. The non-crossed-out teeth are all there. Based on the teeth present, what can you say about the age of this individual?
18. Which two types of trauma tend to produce radiating fractures that come out of the impact area?
19. Is the trauma on the ulna an example of antemortem, perimortem, or postmortem injury? How do you know?
20. From the dental chart above, what is the name of the tooth that has a filling?
21. What is another example of a cultural modification to teeth that you learned about in this course? What is the practice and which culture is it from?
22. Write a paragraph over 250 words that gives a profile of the person's traits based on clues found on their skeleton. Include the case number and information on all of the six traits in the table above and how you reached the estimations you made.
Attachment:- Forensic Anthropology Investigation.rar