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(Re)Conceptualizing Death: Examining Attitudes Toward Death At The Anthropological Research Facility, Kiley Nicole Compton
(Re)Conceptualizing Death: Examining Attitudes Toward Death At The Anthropological Research Facility, Kiley Nicole Compton
Masters Theses
The Anthropological Research Facility (ARF), commonly known as the “Body Farm,” provides a unique research setting in which researchers work intimately with human remains in various stages of decomposition. While the ARF, and forensic anthropology, is well documented in popular culture, little academic research has been conducted to investigate the sociocultural phenomena associated with working with human remains.
This thesis investigates the reactions and attitudes toward death of those involved in operational and administrative duties at the ARF focusing on how these attitudes influence and are influenced by involvement at the facility. This research also provides a point of departure …
A Critical Analysis Of The Use Of Non-Metric Traits For Ancestry Estimation Among Two North American Population Samples, Corrine Leeann Vitek
A Critical Analysis Of The Use Of Non-Metric Traits For Ancestry Estimation Among Two North American Population Samples, Corrine Leeann Vitek
Masters Theses
The use of diverse morphological features, or traits, of the skeleton for the estimation of ancestry remains an important part of the forensic anthropologist’s toolkit for medico legal death investigations. Research into the estimation of ancestry has an equally long history and use in anthropology. This study re-evaluates the classic techniques historically used to estimate ancestry within the United States in human crania with emphasis to the possible inclusion of secular change in the prevalence of traits when comparing well documented modern skeletal material population to a comparable sample of an earlier period.
The aim of this study was to …