Check Your Understanding 7.1 Section Date 1 What kinds of cases do forensic anth
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Check Your Understanding 7.1 Section Date 1 What kinds of cases do forensic anthropologists resolve? are at least two types of questions forensic anthropologists try to answer when dealing with human remains? 3 Knowing when trauma to bone occurred can be important in identfying ndividuals and solving cases. What are the terms used to describe trauma occurring a before death? b around the time of death? C after death? 4 What are anthroposcopy and anthropometry? 5 How are cenis indinanks uehult 6 What are two measurements that can be taken with sliding calipers? With spreading calipers? 7 What is the difference between sex and gender? 8 What are differences in size or shape between the sexes of a species calledi? 9 What is an overall difference between male and female skeletons? Chapter 7 Forensic Anthropology 183Explanation / Answer
1. Forensic anthropologists resolves cases related to mass disasters, earlier prehistoric man, prehistoric animals, historical causes of significance.
2. Two fundamental questions in this case will be: (i) Who is/was this person? (ii) What events surrounded their death and the time of death?
3. (a) before death: Antemortem Trauma;
(b) around the time of death: Perimortem Trauma;
(c) after death: Postmortem Trauma.
4. Anthroposcopy involves the evaluation of visual markers: the description of physical variation by visual inspection; skin, eye, hair, color, physique.
Anthropometry involves the measurement on living skeletons (bones).