ANT 211
Fundamentals of Forensic Anthropology
with Dr. Albert 

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TEST 4 INFORMATION AND STUDY GUIDELINES

Test Format and Scoring:  The test, worth 100 points, will consist of 50 multiple choice questions, worth 2 points each.  Additionally, there will be two bonus questions worth 2 points each, 4 points total (for extra credit).

Curve:  As stated in the syllabus, if the highest grade is below 94, your test will be graded on a curve--the number of points needed to bring the highest score (excluding the bonus) up to 94 will be added to everyone's score.

What to study: The test will cover information presented in lecture, reading materials, and video. Review the following readings:

• Maples:  Chapters 10-16
  
• Burns: 
  • B: 13 pp. 208-220, 225;  220-224; 11 pp. 177-182; 16 (all)

   

• The priority for what to study should be

1. The material from lecture and readings that overlap
2. The material from class only
3. Material in the texts and or online only

Items of particular interest:

• Burns:  Chapter 13, pages noted above.
  • Timing of injury
  • Classification of injury:  fractures, cutting wounds, gunshot wounds, blunt force
  • Be familiar with the stages of bone healing (you do not have to know specific terminology such as ostogenic, osteoblasts, osteocytes, etc.)
  • Factors that affect bone healing
  • Diseases seen skeletally that can be confused with trauma, or that provide biological profile information:  age-related diseases, nutritional/metabolic diseases that leave their mark on bones, skeletal evidence of infectious disease, neoplasms
  • Pages 172-174 are meant to conclude the part of the course involving identifications and analyses of a what we think of as typical forensic cases; read these pages to help tie concepts together (there will be no questions on the test directly from material on pages 172-174--the information here helps answer other questions).
• Burns:  Chapter 16
  • Compare and contrast human rights casework with typical forensic casework
  • What's involved in planning a mission?
  • What do forensic anthropologists do in these types of cases?
  • What agencies are involved?
• Class:
  • Trauma: 
    • Types of fractures; what factors influence how bones break
    • Timing and pattern of injury; healing
    • Trauma vs. naturally occurring bone damage; burning
  • Human rights cases and mass disaster cases:  What do forensic anthropologists do?  What are some examples of these kinds of cases?
  • Historic cases:  See Maples, and online notes
• Maples:
  • Which historic individuals were studied?  How do historic accounts and or documents assist in the forensic inquiries of identity and manner of death?   What skeletal evidence was used to identify certain individuals?  What skeletal evidence showed what sort of manner of death?

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