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ANT 426
Forensic Osteology Method and Theory


Syllabus

Schedule:

Tuesdays=T and Thursdays=R

Week Date Topics Chapter Exercises Readings: Byers

*Readings:  Steadman

1 R 1-10 Class introduction:  topics, class format, discussion of content and lab exercises, semester project      
2 T 1-15
R 1-17
Osteology Review
What Forensic Relevance Is

1-2 (odd numbers)
Chapters 1-2
Chapter 3 (read only)
 
3 *T 1-22
R 1-24
Search and Recovery of Remains
Time Since Death Estimation
*End of class Quizzes begin (see syllabus)
4 (even numbers)
5 (odd numbers)
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter  1, and Section I introduction pp. 23-30. 
4 T 1-29
R 1-31
Conducting a Skeletal Inventory
Ancestry Estimation
Quizzes 3 & 4
6 (even)
7 (odd)
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Section II introduction pp. 87-94 and Chapters 8 and 9
5 T 2-5
R 2-7
Sex Determination
Quizzes 5 & 6
8 (even) Chapter 8 Chapters 12, 13 and 14
6 T 2-12
R 2-14
Age Estimation
Quizzes 7 & 8
9 (odd) Chapter 9 Chapters 17 and 18
7 T 2-19
R 2-21
American Academy of Forensic Sciences Meetings

Casework on your own time this week

 
10 (even) Chapter 10  
8 T 2-26
R 2-28
Stature Estimation
Trauma Analysis
Quizzes 9 & 10
11 (odd)
12 (even)
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 10 
9 T 3-4
R 3-6
SPRING BREAK:  Class does not meet      
10 T 3-11
R 3-13
Blunt Trauma
Sharp Trauma and ? (what exactly does "miscellaneous mean"?)
Quizzes 11 & 12
13 (odd)
14 (even)
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 11
11 T 3-18
R 3-20
Disease and Pathology
Spring Holiday:  Class does not meet
15 (odd)
 
Chapter 15
 
 
12 T 3-25
R 3-27
Trauma after death
(if it doesn't hurt, is it trauma?)
Beyond the Usual
Quizzes 13 & 14
16 (even)
17 (odd)
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 16, 19
13 T 4-1
R 4-3
How Antemortem Information Helps ID the Dead
Quizzes 15
18 (even)

 

Chapter 18

 

 
14 T 4-8
R 4-10
Where Things are Headed
 
no exercises Chapter 19 Chapter 6, 22
15 T 4-15
R 4-17
Completing our class project:  Meet in Lab
 
  Review Readings Review
16 T 4-22
R 4-24
Completing our class project:  Meet in Lab
Last Day of Class
     
Written Reports due on Final Exam day:  Thursday, May 1, 8:00-11:00 AM.

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