Methods in Forensic Anthropology

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This course is designed to expose undergraduate students to the techniques, theory, and methodology used in anthropological research and the practice of forensic anthropology. Forensic anthropology is an applied field of biological anthropology that seeks to recover, identify, and evaluate human skeletal remains within a medico-legal context. This process includes the determination of an unidentified individual’s biological sex, age-at-death, populational affinity, stature, and in many cases, the circumstances surrounding death.