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Chapter 7 By: RayRaySig, CorFix, Alyssa Batty

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__Topics:__ -Physical anthropology and Human Variability -Taphonomy -Archaeology -Scene Processing -Examining Remains -Forensic Athropology documentation -Expert Witness Testimony

__Forensic Anthropology__: Forensic Athropology can be defined most broadly as the application of the theory and methods of anthropology to forensic problems. Most forensic anthropologists have been specialists in physical anthropology, the study of human biological function and variation, particalarly skeletal biology.

__Vocabulary:__ -forensic taphonomy: interpretation of primarily outdoor death scenes and postmortem processes -forensic archaeology: recovery of scattered or burried remains -biological profile: they can identifying the victim by age, sex, stature, ancestry, anomalies, patheology, indivdual features -physical athropolgy: a branch of [|anthropology] that studies the mechanisms of biological [|evolution], [|genetic] inheritance, [|human] [|adaptability] and variation, [|primatology], [|primate] [|morphology], and the [|fossil record] of [|human evolution]. -osteology: scienticfic study of bones -scavengers: [|carnivorous] [|feeding behaviour] in which a predator consumes [|corpses] or [|carrion] that were not killed to be eaten by the predator or others of its species. -trace evidence: is normally caused by objects or substances contacting one another, and leaving a minute sample on the contact surfaces. Material is often transferred by heat induced by contact [|friction]. -cadaver dogs: A dog trained to aid the police, as in tracking criminals or detecting controlled substances -epiphysis: the name for a rounded end of a long [|bone]. -macroscopic: a word commonly used to describe [|physical] objects that are [|measurable] and [|observable] by the [|naked eye]. http://mcglynn-forensicscience.wikispaces.com/Antrophology+Pictures