Anthropology and Forensic Science Anthropology is the study of human bones and and the development of cultures and societies. Forensic science is the discipline in which professionals use scientific means to analyze physical crime evidence. Forensic science and anthropology are both used in many different ways and maybe even alike in some ways. Anthropology and forensic science can be used together to identify multiple things. Both help each other out in many ways through DNA or fractures on a bone and see cause of death through the bones. They can be used together and be called forensic anthropology. This is used in a criminal investigation. When a person gets murdered or killed they surround the crime scene and the forensic scientist
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There are many different ways to answer questions in criminal cases can be used skeletons of any age, modern or ancient. The stages of growth and development are used to identify if the person is a child or an adult . The pelvic bones can be used to identify the second a person. Abnormal changes in the shape, size and density of bones can indicate disease or traumas. Bones marked by perimortem injuries, such as unhealed fractures, bullet holes, or cuts, can reflect cause of death. The trained anthropologist is able to examine the skeletal remains and look for evidence towards the ancestry.For example, skull shape and dental traits identify the race. Even certain activities are shown on the bones and the …show more content…
Douglas Owsley is a forensic anthropologist at the smithsonian who examined a skeleton from Jamestown, they discovered evidence of chops to the skull from an axe or other sharp bladed, implement. On the bone there was knife cuts . Along with other information such as biological indicators and discovery location of the remains, Dr. Owsley concluded that a 14-year-old girl had been cannibalized after she died. His discovery supported other historic data that the colonists of Jamestown suffered severe starvation during the harsh winter of 1609-1610. A forensic anthropologist can find the sex, age, height, and clues to ancestry in human remains. A scientist who uses the "keys" in human bones and teeth is a forensic anthropologist. The word forensic refers to applying science to a criminal investigation and when using the bones in an investigation you are a forensic
There are many different ways to answer questions in criminal cases can be used skeletons of any age, modern or ancient. The stages of growth and development are used to identify if the person is a child or an adult . The pelvic bones can be used to identify the second a person. Abnormal changes in the shape, size and density of bones can indicate disease or traumas. Bones marked by perimortem injuries, such as unhealed fractures, bullet holes, or cuts, can reflect cause of death. The trained anthropologist is able to examine the skeletal remains and look for evidence towards the ancestry.For example, skull shape and dental traits identify the race. Even certain activities are shown on the bones and the …show more content…
Douglas Owsley is a forensic anthropologist at the smithsonian who examined a skeleton from Jamestown, they discovered evidence of chops to the skull from an axe or other sharp bladed, implement. On the bone there was knife cuts . Along with other information such as biological indicators and discovery location of the remains, Dr. Owsley concluded that a 14-year-old girl had been cannibalized after she died. His discovery supported other historic data that the colonists of Jamestown suffered severe starvation during the harsh winter of 1609-1610. A forensic anthropologist can find the sex, age, height, and clues to ancestry in human remains. A scientist who uses the "keys" in human bones and teeth is a forensic anthropologist. The word forensic refers to applying science to a criminal investigation and when using the bones in an investigation you are a forensic