Description
Over the past 100 years, forensic anthropology has helped solve many cases. Along the way, the sub-field has changed from an abstruse art to a (usually) scientific approach to what we know, how we know it, and how to apply it. In this class, we survey forensic anthropological techniques and assumptions. Examples and case studies are used to look at the development of the sub-field, some of its limitations, and some of its uses and abuses.
Dave Weaver received his doctorate in physical anthropology from UNM. After 25 years at Wake Forest University, he returned to New Mexico. He has worked in North and Central America, Europe, and Africa on human skeletal analysis, forensic anthropology, bone microstructure, human evolution, and osteoporosis.