Forensic Anthropology
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Professor Michael Pietrusewsky |
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Tu & Th 1:30-2:45
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Office: Dean 207
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Mailbox: SSB 346
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Lecture: Saunders 345
Laboratory: Dean 208 |
Office Hours: Tu 3-4 & W 10-11, or by appt.
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Tel.: 956-6653
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e-mail: mikep@hawaii.edu
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Course Description |
Course Outline and PPTs |
Reading List |
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HTML format (w/PPTs)
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Exam Study Guides |
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Midterm Exam  |
Final Exam |
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Laboratory Exercises |
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Animal or Human? |
Trauma Indication |
Age Determination: Subadults |
Age Determination: Adults |
Sex Determination |
Ancestry |
Stature |
Forensic Case: Jane/John Doe |
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Topic |
Chapter-B |
Ch: B&M |
Jan. |
9 |
Introduction, organization |
1 |
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11 |
Forensic science & forensic anthropology |
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16 |
Lab 1: Review of osteology: skull & dentition |
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18 |
Lab 1: Review osteology: infracranial skeleton |
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23 |
Forensic context: human vs.animal; recent vs.old, etc. |
3 |
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25 |
Recovery scene methods; mass disasters |
4 |
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30 |
Lab 2: Animal vs.human |
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3 |
Feb. |
1 |
Estimating time since death |
5 |
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6 |
Initial treatment: preparation, inventory, commingling |
6 |
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8 |
Ancestry |
7 |
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13 |
Lab 3: Ancestry |
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7 |
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15 |
Sex determination |
8 |
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20 |
Lab 4: Sex determination |
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8 |
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22 |
Age determination: subadults |
9 |
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27 |
Lab 5: Age determination: subadults |
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9 |
Mar. |
1 |
Age determination: adults |
9 |
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6 |
Lab 6: Age determination: adults |
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9 |
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8 |
Mid-term: written & practical |
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13 |
Fieldtrip POW/MIA lab (pending) |
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15 |
Stature |
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20 |
Lab 7: stature |
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22 |
Cause and manner of death, trauma |
11 |
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SPRING RECESS MARCH 26-30 |
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Apr. |
3 |
Lab 8: Trauma |
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11 |
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Antemortem changes: paleopathology, occupational markers |
15 |
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10 |
Postmortem changes: animal scavenging, fire, etc. |
16 |
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12 |
Forensic odontology |
18:431-443 |
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Lab 9: John/Jane Doe |
Lab 8 due |
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Lab 9: John/Jane Doe |
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24 |
Reconstruction of identity: facial reconstruction, superimposition, DNA analysis |
17; 18:424-431 |
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26 |
Ethics, expert witness, legal matters |
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Lab 9 due |
May |
1 |
Human rights, forensic applications |
Extra credit due |
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9 |
Final practical exam 1-3 PM (Dean 210) |
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Final written (12-2 PM) Saunders 345 |
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Labs meet in Dean 208; Lectures meet in Saunders 345; B = Byers (2005); B&M = Byers and Myster (2005)