✅ Relevance
Paper -1 : Unit 12
📌Forensic anthropology
✅ Case study
✅ Study by: Laura Donato et al in 2016
📌 Objective:
Study of Skeletal Remains: Solving a Homicide Case with Forensic Anthropology.
📌 Methodology:
• The study examines a case in which signs of incised wounds were found on skeletal
remains of a murder victim.
• The authors have studied the skeletal remains and the dynamics of the murder in order to reconstruct the kind of weapon utilized.
• The main feature of these remains was the discovery of a damage of a thoracic vertebra (T1). Highly decomposed bodies, as in skeletal remains, having poor or absent biological tissue on it, challenge the operator to classify the exact nature of the damage, and in some cases, it does not allow achieving a significant level of certainty.
• In order to solve this critical situation, Forensic Anthropology may contribute greatly by supplying a great amount of information that would not be deciphered otherwise.
✅ Result:
Using the knowledge of forensic anthropology, skeletal remains are studied to identify the features of the damaging pattern that allows analyzing the dynamics and the nature of the kind of weapon used. This helped reach a more accurate evaluation.