ANT 295-01 - Special Topic: Forensic Anthropology

4 credits (Spring)

This course is a survey of the principles, methods, and skills utilized by forensic anthropologists to recover, analyze, and identify skeletal remains with legal relevance. Topics covered will include mapping, excavation and recovery of remains, bone identification, skeletal trauma, postmortem damage and taphonomic processes, estimation of age, sex, ancestry, and stature, as well as individual identification and circumstances of death. We will also draw on parallels from other anthropological subfields (e.g. bioarchaeology) to provide additional context.

Prerequisite: ANT 104 or BIO 251; with grade S, C, or better.
Instructor: DeMars