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What Can Forensic Anthropology NOT Answer?
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I'd say I). It would seem that sex would be the easiest to identify, but I've been involved in one case where the sex was in dispute, and if only parts of the body exist, it may be impossible to tell without DNA. Age is also difficult past a certain point.
E? depending on the state of the remains
BZZTs all over the place! Keep trying, peeps!
F) They can't determine the time of death. They can date bones, for example, to give a ballpark of how old they are but they definitely can't give anything as narrow as time of death. Just broad approximations at best.
Perhaps I'm misreading the way this one is written. None of these questions can always be answered by anybody, whatever their specialty.
I agree K.A. None can ALWAYS be answered. I was going to pick I) as well but then thought I must have misunderstood the question."What question can a forensic anthropologist NOT always answer?"
Fishface: Do you mean what question can a forsensic anthropologist NEVER answer?
I mean what question can a forensic anthropologist often, but NOT ALWAYS, answer.
C? I have no idea why except that not everyone is made the same.
Every single answer has now been bzzt'd:A (post 13)
B (post 9)
C (post 16)
D (post 3)
E (post 4)
F (post 7)
G (post 15)
H (post 18)
I (post 2)
This is an insoluble problem.
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A (post 13)
B (post 9)
C (post 16)
D (post 3)
E (post 4)
F (post 7)
G (post 15)
H (post 18)
I (post 2)
This is an insoluble problem."
Check Eileen's med cabinet, I think she's been chugging the Benadryl again.
K.A. wrote: "I'd say I). It would seem that sex would be the easiest to identify, but I've been involved in one case where the sex was in dispute, and if only parts of the body exist, it may be impossible to te..."Sorry, I totally missed this answer somehow. DING DING DING!
LOL, it was the second post! So much fun wracking our brains and flogging a dead horse! Got us all thinking...
Maybe I didn't know it. I or D? NM...I see it, lol.
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A) How many victims were deposited at a given site
B) Age
C) Sex
D) Drug use by the victim
E) The cause of death
F) Time of death
G) Everything but A
H) Everything but C
I) None of these questions can always be answered by this branch of forensics