Biological Profile

(2 Credits)

This is a stand-alone course on the biological profile, the process of determining age, sex, stature and mass, population affinity, and pathology and trauma based on the analysis of human skeletal remains. Students will read manuscripts and standards guides that establish the theoretical and practical applications of the methods of the biological profile and will be provided with skeletal material on which to apply those methods. By the end of this course students should be able to carry out a biological profile on human remains and fully understand the methods necessary to do so.