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Anthropology 258: FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY

Course Description: This course is designed to teach students to recognize human skeletal remains whether they are complete or fragmentary, to be able to identify individual skeletons with regard to various categories (e.g., sex, stature, age), and to understand the use of human remains in legal and archaeological contexts. Accordingly, the lectures will be divided into three categories: practical osteology; interpretive osteology; forensics. In general, Mondays will be devoted to practical osteology, Wednesdays and Fridays to interpretive osteology and forensics. Students will have hands-on experience with human and non-human skeletal remains and will be required to identify these remains in quizzes. Study time for quizzes will be arranged with the instructor.

Required Text: The Anatomy and Biology of the Human Skeleton, D. Gentry STEELE and Claud A. BRAMBLETT, Texas A & M University Press, College Station, TX, 1988.

Recommended Reading: Introduction to Forensic Anthropology: A Textbook, 2nd ed., Steven N. Byers, Pearson/Allyn & Bacon, New York, 2005.

Course Outline:

I. Practical Osteology........................................... S&B: Parts III-XI; Byers: Chap.2; Bass*

II. Interpretive Osteology

A. The Skeleton............................................................. S&B: Part I; Byers: Chap.2

B. The Anatomy of Bone................................................... S&B: Part II; Vaughan*

C. Human Identification........................................ S&B: Parts III-XI (Applications)

1. sex...................................................................................... Byers: Chap.8

2. age...................................................................................... Byers: Chap.9

3. stature............................................................................... Byers: Chap.10

4. weight................................................................................ Byers: p.420-2

5. race..................................................................................... Byers: Chap.7

6. genetic relationship

7. physiognomy.................................................................... Byers: Chap.17

8. individuation............................................................... Byers: Chap.17, 18

EXAM #2

III. Forensics

A. History................................... Byers: Chap.1; Forbes*; Thompson*; Ubelaker*

B. Site Investigation.................................... Byers: Chap.4; Swanson et al.*; Wolf*

C. Archaeology.............................. Kennedy*; Goodman & Armelagos*; Grauer*;

............................................................................................................. Spindler*

D. Evidence and the Law.............................................................................. Chap.19

E. Circumstances of Death............. Byers: Chaps.5, 11-15; Morse et al.*; Maples*

F. Case Studies..................................... Caldwell*; Webster et al.*;Snow & Luke*

G. Occupational Information................................... Podolefsky & Brown, Chap.8*

* Indicates readings from books available in the university library.

Course Requirements: There will be three exams; two in-class preliminary exams and the final exam. Each exam will constitute one-fourth of the total grade. The first exam will occur around the fifth week, during the section on Human Identification (Part II. C.). The second exam will occur after the section on Interpretive Osteology (Part II). The final exam will be cumulative but will very heavily stress the last third of the course (Part III). In addition, the combined scores of all the bone quizzes will constitute one-fourth of the total grade. Bone quizzes are never "curved." The last bone quiz will be taken by groups of students working on half of a skeleton. This quiz will be worth twice the average value of the other quizzes.

Bibliography: The following books available in Rohrbach Library, on the shelves or on reserve, may be useful:

Bass, W. M., Human Osteology: A Laboratory and Field Manual of the Human Skeleton, Archaeology Society, Columbia, MO, 1971.

Boddington, A., A.N. Garland, and R.C. Janaway, Death, decay, and reconstruction : approaches to archaeology and forensic science, Manchester University Press, Wolfeboro, NH, 1987. GN69.8 .D43 1987

Byers, Steven N., Introduction to Forensic Anthropology: A Textbook, 2nd ed., Pearson/Allyn & Bacon, New York, 2005.

Caldwell, Peggy C., "New Questions (And Some Answers) on the Facial Reproduction Techniques, in Kathleen J. Reichs, ed., Forensic Osteology: Advances in the Identification of Human Remains, Charles Thomas, Springfield, IL, 1986.

Downer, G.C., Dental Morphology: An illustrated guide, John Wright & Sons, Bristol, 1975.

Eckert, William G., ed., Introduction to forensic sciences, 2nd ed., CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla., 1997. HV8073 .I57 1997

Evans, Colin, The casebook of forensic detection : how science solved 100 of the world's most baffling crimes, Wiley, New York, 1996. RA1053 .E93 1996

Forbes, Thomas Rogers, Surgeons at the Bailey: English Forensic Medicine to 1878, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1985.

Gee, D. J. and J.K. Mason, The courts and the doctor, Oxford University Press, New York, 1990. KD7523 .G44 1990

Glob, P.V., The Bog People: Iron-age man preserved, translated by Rupert Bruce-Mitford, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1969.

Goodman, Alan H. and George J. Armelagos, "Disease and Death at Dr. Dickson's Mounds, pp.91-95, in Podolefsky and Brown, eds., Applying Anthropology, Mayfield Publishing, Mountain View, CA, 1989.

Haglund, William D. and Marcella H. Sorg, eds., Forensic taphonomy : the postmortem fate of human remains, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1997. RA1063.47 .F67 1997

Hillson, Simon, Mammal Bones and Teeth, Institute of Archaeology, London, 1992. QE 881 H55

Houts, Marshall, Where death delights : the story of Dr. Milton Helpern and forensic medicine, Coward-McCann, New York, 1967. 614.1092 H369h

Iscan, Mehmet Yasar and Richard P. Helmer, eds., Forensic analysis of the skull : craniofacial analysis, reconstruction, and identification, Wiley-Liss, New York, N.Y., c1993.

Jane E. Buikstra, editor, A Life in Science: Papers in honor of J. Lawrence Angel, Center for American Archeology, Scientific Papers 6, 1990.

Kathleen J. Reichs, editor, Forensic Osteology: Advances in the identification of human remains, Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, IL, 1986.

Kennedy, Kenneth A. R., "When Bones Tell Tales," pp.85-90, in Podolefsky and Brown, eds., Applying Anthropology, Mayfield Publishing, Mountain View, CA, 1989.

Krogman, Wilton Marion and Mehmet Yasar Isçan, The Human Skeleton in Forensic Medicine, 2nd ed., Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, IL, 1986.

Loth, Susan R. and Maciej Henneberg, "Mandibular Ramus Flexure: A New Morphologic Indicator of Sexual Dimorphism in the Human Skeleton," American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Vol.99, pp.455-72, 1996.

Maples, William R., "Trauma Analysis by the Forensic Anthropologist," in Kathleen J. Reichs, ed., Forensic Osteology: Advances in the Identification of Human Remains, Charles Thomas, Springfield, IL, 1986.

Massie, Robert K., The Romanovs : the final chapter, Random House, New York, 1995. RUSSIAN CULTURE CENTER DK258 .M33 1995

Morse, Dan, Jack Duncan and James Stoutamire, eds., Handbook of Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology, Florida State University Foundation Tallahassee, FL, 1983.

Noguchi, Thomas T. with Joseph DiMona, Coroner, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1983. RA1025.N63 A33 1983

Pickering, Robert B. and David C. Bachman, The use of forensic anthropology, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla., 1997. RA1063.4 .P52

Podolefsky, Aaron and Peter J. Brown, eds., Applying Anthropology: An Introductory Reader, Mayfield Publishing, Mountain View, CA, 1989.

Rathbun, Ted A. and Jane E. Buikstra, editors, Human Identification: Case studies in forensic anthropology, Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, IL, 1984.

Schwartz, Jeffrey H., Skeleton keys : an introduction to human skeletal morphology, development, and analysis, Oxford University Press, New York, 1995. QM101 .S38 1995

Searfoss, Glenn, Skulls and Bones: a guide to the skeletal structures and behavior of North American mammals, Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA, 1995. QL715 .S43 1995

Smith, Kenneth G. V., A manual of forensic entomology, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y., 1986. RA1063.45 .S47 1986

Snow, Clyde and James L. Luke, "The Olkahoma City Child Disappearances: Forensic Anthropology in the Identification of Skeletal Remains," pp.57-63, in Podolefsky and Brown, eds., Applying Anthropology, Mayfield Publishing, Mountain View, CA, 1989.

Spencer, Frank, edited, A History of American Physical Anthropology: 1930-1980, Academic Press, New York, 1982.

Steele, D. Gentry and Claud A. Bramblett, The Anatomy and Biology of the Human Skeleton, Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX, 1988.

Steinbock, R. Ted, Paleopathological Diagnosis and Interpretation: Bone disease in ancient human populations, Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, IL, 1976.

Stimson, Paul G., Curtis A. Mert, editors, Forensic Dentistry, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1997. RA1062 .F67 1997

Swanson, Charles R., Neil C. Chamelin and Leonard Territo, Criminal Investigation, 4th edition, Random House, New York, 1988.

Thompson, D. D., "Forensic Anthropology," in Frank Spencer, ed., A History of American Physical Anthropology, 1930-1980, Academic Press, New York, 1982.

Ubelaker, Douglas H., "J. Lawrence Angel and the Development of Forensic Anthropology in the United States," in Jane E. Buikstra, ed., A Life in Science: Papers in Honor of J. Lawrence Angel, Center For American Archeology, 1990.

Ubelaker, Douglas H., Reconstruction of demographic profiles from ossuary skeletal samples; a case study from the Tidewater Potomac, Smithsonian Institution Press; Washington, 1974. QUARTO 573.609701 Ub3r

Vaughan, Janet M., The Physiology of Bone, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1970.

Webster, William P. W. Kent Murray, William Brinkhous and Page Hudson, "Identification of Human Remains using Photographic Reconstruction," in Kathleen J. Reichs, ed., Forensic Osteology: Advances in the Identification of Human Remains, Charles Thomas, Springfield, IL, 1986.

Wolf, David J., "Forensic Anthropology Scene Investigations," in Kathleen J. Reichs, ed., Forensic Osteology: Advances in the Identification of Human Remains, Charles Thomas, Springfield, IL, 1986.