What Can We Learn?

What Can We Learn?

<p> Bones Notes What Can We Learn? • Determination of Sex – ______– ______• Determination of Race – ______• Approximate Age – ______of ______bones • Approximate Stature – ______of ______bones • Postmortem or antimortem injuries • Postmortem interval (time of death)</p><p>How Bones are Connected • Bones are held together by: a. ______—wraps the ends of bones and keeps them from scraping one another. b. ______—bands that connect two or more bones together. c. ______—connect muscle to bone. </p><p>• Until about 30 years of age, bones increase in size. • Deterioration after 30 can be slowed with exercise. </p><p>1. Determination of Sex (PELVIS) • ______is the best bones (differences due to adaptations to childbirth)</p><p>* 1. females have ______angle * 2. females have a ______> 90° * 3. females have a broad pelvic inlet</p><p>1. Determination of Sex: (CRANIUM) • Crests and ridges more pronounced in ______(A, B, C) • ______significantly more ______in ______(E) • Mastoid process wide and robust in males • ______more in ______(F)</p><p>1. Determination of Sex (LONGBONES) • Normally, the long bones alone are not used alone to estimate gender. However, if these bones are the only ones present, there are characteristics that can be used for sex determination. • E.g. maximum length of humerus in ______is 305.9 mm, while it is 339.0 mm in ______2. Determination of Race • It can be extremely difficult to determine the true race of a skeleton for several reasons: – First, forensic anthropologists generally use a three-race model to categorize skeletal traits: ______(European), ______(Asian/Amerindian), and ______(African and West Indian). – Although there are certainly some common physical characteristics among these groups, not all individuals have skeletal traits that are completely consistent with their geographic origin. – Second, people of mixed racial ancestry are common. • Often times, a skeleton exhibits characteristics of more than one racial group and does not fit neatly into the three-race model. – Also, the vast majority of the skeletal indicators used to determine race are non-metric traits which can be highly subjective. • Despite these drawbacks, race determination is viewed as a critical part of the overall identification of an individual's remains.</p><p>Features of the Skull Used in Race Determination • ______: The ratio of the width to the height of the nose, multiplied by 100 • ______• Feel the base of the nasal cavity, on either side of the nasal spine – do you feel sharp ridges (nasal silling), rounded ridges, or no ridges at all (nasal guttering)? • ______: extended lower jaw • ______of ______(round or squareish 3. Determination of Age • The long bones are those that grow primarily by elongation at an ______at one end of the growing bone. The long bones include the ______, ______, and ______of the legs, the ______, ______, and ______of the arms, and the ______of the fingers and toes. • As a child grows the epiphyses become ______(turn to hard bone) </p><p>3. Determination of Age from Bones • Ages 0-5: ______are best – forensic odontology – Baby teeth are lost and adult teeth erupt in predictable patterns • Ages 6-25: ______– fusion of bone ends to bone shaft – epiphyseal fusion varies with sex and is typically complete by age 25 • Ages 25-40: very hard • Ages 40+: basically ______and ______on bones – periodontal disease, ______, breakdown of pelvis, etc. • Can also use ______of bones such as those found in the ______</p><p>• By about age ______, the suture at the back of the skull will have closed. • By about age ______, the suture running across the top of the skull, back to front, will have closed. • By about age ______, the suture running side to side over the top of the skull, near the front, will have closed. • During life, many of the ______bones a person has at birth grow together, finally forming ______bones. • As the cartilage between them is replaced, an epiphysis line is visible. • When the cartilage is fully replaced, the line is no longer visible. • This information can be used to approximate a skeleton’s age. </p><p>Epiphyseal Fusion • The lines in the illustrated Image 1 show the lines or layers of cartilage between the bone and the epiphyses. The lines are very clear on the bone when a person, either male or female is not out of puberty. • In Image 2, you see no visible lines. This person is out of puberty. The epiphyses have fully joined when a person reaches adulthood, closing off the ability to grow taller or in the case of the arms, to grow longer.</p><p>2. Age Determination: Use of Teeth</p><p>3. Determination of Stature • ______length (femur, tibia, humerus) is proportional to height How To Find the Height Using Bones </p><p>4. Other Information We Can Get From Bones: • Evidence of trauma (here GSW to the head)</p>

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