ANTHROP 3FA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Epiphyseal Plate, Foramen Magnum, Halton Regional Police Service
24 Oct 2014
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Saves time and effort if not forensically significant. Reduces stress, anxiety of families with missing relatives. Byers: remains that are <50 yrs old and not in the care of the physician. Depends on the case itself and the remains that are found. If there are clues that it is contemporary (dentures), it can help us answer this question. Melted plastic can look like cancellous bone. The body farm): 25-30% of cases are animal. Huge legal case: would go in, dig stuff out, carry it back to home and go through it, prowse went through the fragments of bones in order to sort them into animal/human. Halton police (2009: someone found bones in backyard and sent pictures to be identified as human or animal. Look at shape and angle of joint surfaces. The ends of the long bones is very distinctive depending on the type of movement the animal does: size and architecture.
