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Body found in floodplain where soil is soft and sandy Guy examining is a forensic anthropologist Child was abused from the moment he was born Goals are to make identification and determine cause of death Big four: sex, race, age, and stature 1962 anthropologists seldom brought to crime scenes Absence of flesh makes it easier, skin can be deceptive Smooth forehead means it’s a woman Men have a bony bump the occipital protuberance Gradual loss of our molars, if molars have erupted the corpse is more than 18 years old Adult pelvis from sacrum and two hipbones Sacrum is a weight distributor to each innominate Pubis is the bone that spans the front of the abdomen Female’s hipbone broadens to form an arch for the birth canal Pelvis would confirm it was a woman Joint at body’s midline where the left pubis meets the right one is pubic sypysis-measures age Bumpy in teens, smoothes out during twenties and thirties, spongy by forty Prognathism-forward jaw Negroid, Caucasoid, mongoloid Clean bones by simmering them and scraping with a toothbrush Unimpeded nasal opening in a Negroid skull is for rapid air exchange in hot climates Narrow opening in Caucasoid is to keep cold air from flowing into the lungs Cranial vault is seven bones: frontal bone, pair of parietal bones, temporal bones, sphenoid, and occipital bone Where bones meet is sutures Joints are formed of cartilage when we’re born and ossifies (turns to bone) Cranial structure had begun to fuse meaning at least 28 Trotter and Gleser devised formulas ascertaining the length of a body with any long bones (she’s five feet six inches) Lack of dental care means poor Distinctive crossbite Probably Mary Louise Downing from Atchison, Kansas