ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture 1: 11
25 Apr 2015
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Forensic anthropology: a type of physical anthropology, relates anthropology and the law, look at bones and teeth, which allow them to figure out age of death, cause of death, gender, accidental death, crime scene investigation, human rights investigations, work for police departments, work in mass graves (for governments, areas of mass genocide, disguise evidence by putting all the bodies together into a pit", what was the cause of death, how many people, what were their ages, etc. Paleoanthropology: study human evolution, study of the human fossil record, fossil is the only lasting human thing in ancient civilizations, when and where do we see the first evidence for humans, what are human characteristics, paleontology fossil animals and plants.
