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Liz Deason Deaths Acre Notes

- Bones keep a record of any injury or trauma that occured during a persons life - When examining a body on a forensic case "ultimate goal is to make a possatove identification" - determine cause of death

To deterine what happend to the body and thier identification must first figure out: -Sex -Race -Age -Stature

-Place bones facing up when examining a body

-If a persons body is too far into decomposition, or missing essential body parts to determine the four things listed above, bones can be examied and are the most reliable substitues - Pelvis bone is most reliable and ideal to gender -Scrotum splits up the weight - before puberty a body and each innominate bone has three seprate bones - Size of pelvis and placement of feemers can also determine gender as well as age - Race can be deterined by facial, dental and jaw bones - Three major catagories that racical groups fit into when examining bones that have their own cherictoristics Negroid Caucasoid Mongoloid - Nasal opening can determine race of body -Cranial sutures can determine the age of the body Composed of 7 different bones - Frontal bone - Forehead - Pair of parietal bones (form upper sides and rear of scull) - temporal bones - sphenoid - Occipital bone