Oct 05, 2024  
CURRENT 2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
CURRENT 2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
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ANTH 403 - Taphonomy


This course explores the use of taphonomy in forensic anthropology. This course primarily focuses on estimation of the postmortem interval through the observation of soft tissue decomposition, as well as the examination of taphonomic modifications of the human skeleton to interpret medicolegal significance and reconstruct depositional history and the death event.

Prerequisites: ANTH 251  and ANTH 300 .
Credits: 3



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