ASM 275 Study Guide - Final Guide: Osteoarthritis, Foot Binding, Ct Scan
8 Feb 2018
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How is it useful to forensic anthropologists: pathology: the study of ancient disease in skeletal remains. Can be confused with perimortem trauma (fusion defects: 2. Can be confused with postmortem taphonomic alterations: 3. Can provide information on life course experience of the individual: 4. Can provide information on socio-economic status (poor health: 5. Therefore, given 3 and 4 can lead to positive identification. What can diet and health conditions tell us: generalized stress and likely and likely socio-economic stsatus of the decedent. Id and individuation, diseases you are born with, that can be linked to existing medical records. Craniosynostosis: premature closure of one or more cranial suture. What can neoplasms tell us: growth of tissue on some part of body, cancer. What can rare bone diseases tell us: geographic origin, coccidioidomycosis, valley fever , az, ca, northern mexico, caused by inhalation of fungal spores found in soil, bone changes rare but are similar to tuberculosis.
