AP+Examining+Bones+Ramsland

Forensic Anthropologist:
• Studies bodies that have been bloated, blasted, burned, buggy, rotted Skelton of a infant: • Arms and legs were broken, bones in the rib cage were broken, and many fractures: this child we abused

Forensic Case:
• Make a positive identification • Determine time of death “manner of death” • Determine sex, race, age and structure • Start by laying out the body in anatomical order

Bodies:
• The absence of flesh on the face simplifies the task • If a body is bloated, facial tissues can swell making it harder to determine gender • Most reliable info:
 * o Genitals missing, soft tissue decomposed and shapes of bones

Skull:
• If it was small it would be either women or child • Helps determine race • Women: • Men: • Prognathism: Nagroid structure
 * o Mouth narrow and chin pointed
 * o Sharp edges of eye sockets
 * o Large brow ridges
 * o Have boney bump
 * o “forward jaw”
 * o if the pencil contacts the lips and teeth but not the chin

Teeth:
• 3 molars have been erupted then the skeleton is 18 years or older • full set of teeth

Pelvis:
• Adult: • Female: • Male: o Pelvis is narrower
 * o Union of three rugged bones: sacrum, base of spinal column an two hipbones
 * o Hipbone broadens and pubic bone gets longer
 * • Helps determine victims age

Cleaning body:
• Remove tissue from the bones • Clean bones when simmers you simmer them in a covered steam vat and then scrub the soften tissue off

Cranial Structure:
• Determines weather or no the skeleton was 18 or 80 • Looks the assembly of 7 different bones