Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss Forensic Anthropology,  starting with the two questions usually asked of Forensic Anthropologists:

1. Who are they?
2.  What happened?

Joseph Scott Morgan explains what is Forensic Anthropology and how experts in the field are able to figure out what happened in cases where only a minimum of remains are left to investigate.

 

Transcribe Highlights

00:10.88 Introduction- Forensic Anthropology 

05:05.90 Thinking neighbor was "the" Margaret Mead

10:26.47 Forensic Anthropologists - The Body Farm

14:56.66 Training is very intense

20:01.55 Terminator the liquid guy

25:03.32 Bones that make up the human skull 

30:18.10 Swampy area - what happens to bones?

35:08.07 Study of human skeletal remains

40:42.60 Suture lines in floor of skull

44:34.54 Working case of genocide 

50:36.76 Gunshot wound

55:22.21 Conclusion

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