ANTH 4420 - Lab in Forensic Anthropology

0 Class Hours 6 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ANTH 2201 or ANTH 3320 and permission of the instructor.
This laboratory class provides an overview to the field of forensic anthropology for undergraduates. Forensic anthropology is an applied field of physical anthropology that seeks to recover, identify, and evaluate human skeletal remains within a medico-legal context. This generally includes the determination of an unidentified individual’s sex, age, ancestry, stature, and in many cases, circumstances surrounding death.