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Forensic Anthropologist : "tend to see that the bodies are long past their prime - bodies that are bloated, blasted, burned, buggy, rotted, sawed, gnawed, liquefied, mummified, or dismembered. Some are even skeletonized, reduced to bare bones - bare, but brimming with data"

"Flesh decays; but bone endures. Flesh forgets and forgives ancient injuries; bone heals, but it always remembers"

Four things you need to look for: sex, race. age and stature

"A corpse's skin can be deceptive. If a body is bloated, the facial tissues can swell, making it more difficult to discern the person's gender.

Men have a different jaw structure than women, easier to identify bones.

"adult pelvis is a complexly engineered structure resulting from the union of three rugged bones: the sacrum, at the base of the spinal column, and the two hipbones, the right innominate bone and the left innominate."

"At puberty the pelvis gets interetsing in many ways, including skeletally. To allow passage of a babys head during childbirth, the female's hipbone gradually broadens and the pubic bone gets loner, angling farther forward to form more of an arch for the birth canal.

Three main groupings, Ngroid, Caucasoid and Mongoloid

"In reality, though, the cranial vault is a complex assembly of seven separate bones: the frontal bone, or forehead a pair of arietal bones, which forms the skull's upper sides and rear; Tthe temporal bones, low on eaither side, the sphenoid, which forms the floor and part of the sides, and the occipital bone, the skull's heavy back and base, which rests atop the first cervical vertebra and channels the spinal cord into the neck."