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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 1-12 Class introduction:  topics, class format, discussion of content and lab exercises, semester project      
2 T 1-17
R 1-19
Osteology Review, defining forensic relevance 1 (odd numbers)
2 (odd numbers)
Chapters 1-2
Chapter 3
 
3 *T 1-24
R 1-26
Search and Recovery of Remains,
Time Since Death Estimation
*Quizzes begin
4 (even numbers)
5 (odd numbers)
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 7
Chapter 13
4 T 1-31
R 2-2
Conducting a Skeletal Inventory,
Ancestry Estimation
Quizzes 3 & 4
6 (even)
7 (odd)
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapters 12 and 3
Chapter 14
5 T 2-7
R 2-9
Sex Determination
Quizzes 5 & 6
8 (even) Chapter 8 Chapters 1 and 19
6 T 2-14
R 2-16
Age Estimation
Quizzes 7 & 8
9 (odd) Chapter 9 Chapters 4 and 16
7 T 2-21
R 2-23
American Academy of Forensic Sciences Meetings 10 (even) Chapter 10  
8 T 2-28
R 3-1
Stature Estimation,
Trauma Analysis
Quizzes 9 & 10
11 (odd)
12 (even)
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 15
Chapter 17
9 T 3-6
R 3-8
Blunt Trauma,
Sharp Trauma
Quizzes 11 & 12
13 (odd)
14 (even)
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 5
Chapter 22
10 T 3-13
R 3-15
SPRING BREAK:  Class does not meet      
11 T 3-20

R 3-22

Disease and Pathology
Quiz 13
Postmortem Trauma

Quiz 14
15 (odd)
16 (even)
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 6
Chapter 2
12 T 3-27
R 3-29
Antemortem info and ID
Semester Project consults
Quiz 15

17 (odd)

18 (even)
 

Chapter 17
Chapter 18
 
Chapter 9
Chapter 20
13 T 4-3
R 4-5
The Future
SPRING HOLIDAY:  Class does not meet

 

Chapter 19

 

 
14 T 4-10
R 4-12
Semester Project
 
 
15 T 4-17
R 4-19
Semester Project
 
     
16 T 4-24
R 4-26
Semester Project      
Written Reports due on Final Exam day:  Thursday, May 8, 11:30 AM.; Oral Presentations begin at 11:30 AM.

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