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What is positive identification and individuation? - ✔✔ - final phases of forensic analysis - identify with high probability the exact identification of the individual - begin with information ... on sex, age, stature, and ancestry - add to this other info from skeleton What is pathology? - ✔✔the study of ancient disease in skeletal remains How is pathology useful to forensic anthropologists? - ✔✔ 1) Can be confused with perimortem trauma (fusion defects) 2) Can be confused with postmortem taphonomic alterations 3) can provide info on life course experience of individual 4) can provide info on socio-economic status (poor health) 5) given 3+4 = leads to positive identification What can past patterns of trauma tell us about the individual? - ✔✔ - past patterns of trauma = occupation, social economic status, work-related injuries - osteoarthritis: degenerative joint disease - skeletal manifestations: 1) lipping of joint surfaces (osteophytes) 2) porosity of joint surface 3) eburnation (due to bone on bone contact), polishing of joint surface [Show More]

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