Final Paper Assignment
For your final paper, you are required to write a 4-5 pages.
The paper should synthesize topics from 3 (three) different Modules from this course. To receive full credit, the paper should:
1. Briefly introduce the field of forensic anthropology and the topics you will be discussing in the paper.
2. Provide a brief background of topic 1.
3. Provide a brief background of topic 2.
4. Provide a brief background of topic 3.
5. Discuss how the three topics relate to each other.
Examples may include how the topics inform each other (like how sex and ancestry estimation will inform the analyst's stature estimation), or challenges that different topics may pose to one another (like how trauma and taphonomy may impede assessing the biological profile {sex, age, ancestry, etc assessment]).
Lecture videos and textbook readings are acceptable sources, and please be sure to cite any outside sources you elect to use. Wikipedia is not an acceptable source for this paper.
This paper is worth a total of 20 points - and it's your last chance to impress us!
Feel free to email me or post to the general discussion board with questions about the assignment.
Module 1: The History of Forensic Anthropology
Module 2 - The medicolegal system
Module 3 - Forensic anthropology in the field
Module 4 - Forensic anthropology in the laboratory
Module 5 - Taphonomy - from biosphere to lithosphere
Module 6 - Anatomy, osteology, measurement, and statistics
Module 7 - Group Characteristics I - Sex
Module 8 - Group Characteristics II - Age
Module 9 - Group Characteristics III - Stature
Module 10 - Group Characteristics IV - Race...fact or fiction?
Module 11 - Individual characteristics and personal identification
Module 12 - Forensic art
Module 13 - Trauma and cause of death
Module 14 - Burned Bodies and Cremation
Module 15 - Mass fatalities
Module 16 - Career paths and applications of forensic anthropology
Textbook "Bare Bones", A Survey of Forensic Anthropology, 2nd Edition