ANT 3520 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Algor Mortis, Rigor Mortis, Forensic Entomology
30 Jan 2017
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Any intentional changes in normal bone structure: society preferences, individual preferences. Conditions surrounding the burial: arrangement of body. Rigor mortis muscle stiffness in a body. Liver mortis settling of blood in the body. Algor mortis cooling of the body. Root etching: roots attach to bones and produce acid. State of preservation: color, texture, hydration, weight, condition/fragmentation, fragility, amount of soft tissue. Law of superimposition: a simple rule stating that as layers of soil accumulate, the oldewr deposits become progressively more deeply buried. Therefore, each layer in sequence is younger than the one below it. Yellow -> brown -> black -> blue/gray -> white. Appearance and characteristics of the fractures margins of bone, and the likelihood that a given fracture was produced by a mechanism seen in clinical medicine. One day, a snake hunter checked the attic of a shed . A bony hardening (calcification) of ligaments in areas where they attach to your spine.
