May 01, 2025  
2024-2025 University Catalog 
    
2024-2025 University Catalog

ANTH 21500 - Introduction To Forensic Anthropology


Credit Hours: 3.00.  Introduction to forensic anthropology, the science that utilizes methods from skeletal biology and archaeology as tools in human identification in a medico-legal context. This course introduces students to methods used to recover and positively identify human remains, and to evaluate trauma and taphonomy in medico-legal situations. Topics include an overview of historical and current developments in the field. Students will develop a comprehensive understanding of the sequential order of applied work from the search for forensic scenes through the recovery of remains, and skeletal analysis in the laboratory. Credits: 3.00