The Skeleton
These bone cells produce bone.
What is osteoblasts?
This disease category results in fractures to bone.
What is trauma?
This is a more recent application of forensic anthropology in response to deaths at federally funded institutions.
What is repatriation?
Tanning is an example of this adaptive response.
What is acclimatization?
These are changes in response to the environment and can be acclimatization, ontogenetic, or cultural in nature.
What are adaptations?
These are five bones of the skull
What are the frontal, parietal(s), occipital, maxilla, mandible, zygomatic(s), temporal(s), nasal(s) bones?
This disease category results from specific bacteria/viruses/fungal agents.
What is infectious (specific) 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 the 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 clinical and functional impacts?
This is the study of changes that happen to a body between the time of death and its discovery.
What is forensic taphonomy?
This is an acclimatization to high altitudes.
What is increased respiration?
These diseases highlight the balancing act between melanin and solar radiation.
What is cancer, osteomalacia and/or rickets?
These are the bones included in the axial skeleton.
What is the skull, cervical thoracic, and lumbar vertebrae, sacrum, coccyx, manubrium, sternum, and ribs?
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 medical reason for a person's death.
What is cause of death?
Skin color 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 plasticity?
These are two types of trauma identified by forensic anthropologists.
What are blunt or sharp force, projectile and gun shots?
This measure is used to study transitions to agriculture and implications of racial categories of health.
What is infant mortality?
This represents the body's ability to control its temperature.
What is homeothermic?