The Skeleton
These bone cells produce bone.
What are osteoblasts?
This disease category results in fractures to bone.
What is trauma?
This is a more recent application for forensic anthropologists in response to deaths at federally funded institutions.
What is repatriation?
Tanning is an example of this adaptation.
What is acclimatization/physiological adaptation?
What are adaptations?
What is the frontal, parietal(s), temporal(s), zygomatic(s), nasal(s), maxilla, mandible, and occipital bone.
This disease category results from specific bacteria/viruses/fungal agents.
What is specific infectious disease?
These are the circumstances surrounding an individual's death.
What is the manner of death?
This rule explains body shape and its relationship to temperature.
What is Bergmann's rule?
This methodology was used to promote racial categories within skeletal remains.
What is craniometry/phrenology/cranial measurements?
This term refers to the point of attachment of the bone that is closest to the center.
What is proximal?
The Bioarchaeology of Care approach looks at impacts to these two categories, which influence the type of care an individual may need.
What are functional and clinical?
These are the changes that happen to a body between time of death and its discovery.
What is forensic taphonomy?
This is an acclimatization response to high altitudes.
What is hypoxia?
These two diseases highlight the balancing act between melanin and solar radiation.
What are rickets and osteomalacia?
These are the bones included in the axial skeleton.
What are the skull, cervical, thoracic, and lumbar vertebrae, sacrum, ribs, sternum, and manubrium.
The skeleton is usually impacted last in response to diseases, therefore most diseases are this to result in skeletal alterations.
What is chronic?
This is the medial reason for a person's death.
What is the cause of death?
Race represents this type of trait.
What is a cline (gradient of trait across geographic space)?
Chronological age is estimated from the skeleton but this type of age category is not.
What is social age?
This bone is lateral to the ulna.
What is the radius?
This feature of the skeleton enables researchers to see changes in the skeleton in response to disease.
What is plastic?
These are two types of trauma identified by forensic anthropologists.
What is blunt force, sharp force, gun shot, projectile trauma?
This measure is used to study transitions to agriculture and implications of racial categories on health.
What is infant mortality?
This represents the body's ability to control its temperature.
What is homeothermic?