Forensic Morphology

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How can dead men tell tales. Forensic anthropologists might have an idea on how they tell tales. To tell a tale anthropologists receive bones of the deceased and examine them in many different ways.
First they start at the skull finding the age, race and gender. To find out how old the person was when they were killed they can look at the teeth, collar bone, the pubic symphysis and some more bones. For age they look at the shape, size and if they are fused with one another. How many bones a person has also tells the anthropologist how old the victim was. However looking at the size of the bones can be misleading, because a child has the potential to be taller than normal for their age or shorter than average for their age making it seem that

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