Chapter 14 Review: Forensic Anthropology Questions and Concepts

Chapter 14 Review Questions True or False 1. The number of bones in the body increases from the time og birth to the adulthood. Answer: False 2. Bones that break when someone is still alive tend to break unevenly, whereas bones broken long after death show clean breaks. Answer: True 3. Because bones can heal, a bone fracture is no longer evident after 10 years Answer: False 4. Mitochondrial DNA analysis of skeletal remains can be used to establish individual identity Answer: False Multiple Choice 5. Refer to figure 14-16 in the text for estimating age using bones. Based on the following characteristics of a set of skeletal remains. which estimate best represent the age of the deceased? Answer: D. At least over 50 years old 6. What is the more reliable bones to determine the sex of a skeleton? Answer: C. Pelvic

7. Which ethnic background tends to have a round nasal cavity, rectangular eye orbits, and some degree of prognathism (extension of the maxilla beyond the face)? Answer: B. African 8. A forensic anthropologist noted that a set of skeletal remains exhibited the following traits wide subpubic angle a sacrum cured outward no visible growth plates, and porous bones. Which description is consistent with these characteristics? Answer: D. Female over 30 with osteoporosis 9. What connects a muscle to a bone? Answer: B. Tendon Short Answers 10. Compare and contrast: A. Growth plates and cartilaginous line Answer: B. Photographic superimposition and craniofacial reconstruction Answer: C. The teeth found in the skeletal remains of a 4 year old the teeth of an 8 year old. Answer: 11. Summarize the process of ossification, include the terms cartilage, bone, and growth plate in your answer. Answer: 12. Describe how levels of different isotopes in skeletal remains have been used to help determine where someone lived. Answer:

13. A males bones are more robust than a females. Relate the structure of a bone to its function. Provide an explanation for male bones being more robust than female bones. Answer: 14. Small skeletal remains were found, at first, the remains were thought to belong to a girl in her early teens, Could the skeletal remain be those of a small adult woman? List features that would help determine if the skeletal remains were from a girl in her early teens or from a mature, small framed woman. Answer: 15. Estimate body height based on a 38cm fibula thought to belong to a female of European ancestry, Refer to figure 14-20 for appropriate formula. Answer: 16. Refer to the case study regarding Captain Bartholomew Gosnold A. What characteristic of the pelvis could be used to determine the skeletal remains belong to a male. Answer: B. Since his age at death was estimated between 33 and 39, which skull sutures were most likely closed? Answer: C. Bone size was used to determine that he was right handed, his type of between increased use of muscle and bone size. Answer: D. Outline how craniofacial reconstruction could be used to produce a three dimensional image of the captains face using the skull

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Answer: E. Some people could argue that the lost tooth could have occurred after death. What evidence would you cite that refutes that claims Answer: F. The skeletal remains were believed to belong to a man of the military and part of the upper class, what evidence supports these claims Answer: Going Further

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