ANT 3520 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Frontal Sinus, Calcination, Religious Denomination
17 Feb 2016
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Categories of personal identity: preliminary or tentative, presumptive- uses logic to associate remains with an individual (based on probative value based on context, sufficient to present as proof in court, positive- 100% certain. Mass disasters: identify each individual from a single piece of remains. Satisfies legal requirement: identify each fragment. Dna- depends on bone preservation and taphonomy hair is resistant to decomp. ; used in large scale transportation disasters: medical and dental records, skeletal pathology. Frontal sinuses exhibit extreme variation: cultural difference. Access to medical care: unique to a specific person. Anatomical structures vary in size and morphology. Same traits run in families: postcranial radiographs. Serial : 161 orthopedic appliances- supposed to treated as medical waste (which must be paid for) Could trace to johnson & johnson and parent company. Traced to 13 surgical patients: 5 had surgery in florida, 2 in town.
