Written in Bone Chapter 2

What tools do scientists use to prevent accidentally chipping the bones?

• metal trowel
• They use tools made of wood or plastic
• Transit
• metal shovel

What does in situ mean

• Digging for bones
• when a skeleton remains in a different position.
•  in the exact position and place where an object is first found,
• latin for color

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Why do scientists pedestal a skeleton?

•   It makes it easier to see the bones and their positions.
• To remove all the flesh from around the bones.
• To stand it upright.
• To place it on higher ground.

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Three ways scientists can determine the age of a deceased person.

• Age of teeth, decay of tissue, and length of leg bone.
• length of the leg and arm bones; whether the epiphyses and shafts of long bones are connected with cartilage or fused with bone; presence or absence of teeth. 
• Length of bones, missing teeth,
  color of the soil.
• Missing teeth, missing bones, and color of the soil stain.

One skeleton feature that differs between males and females.

• A female's chin is more square than a male/
• Females have a smaller sciatic notch than males.
• A female’s skull usually has a larger back ridge
•  Males have a smaller sciatic notch than females.

To determine ancestry, what methods do anthropologists use?

• skull conditions and soil stains.
•  observation, laboratory testing, and precise measurements.
• Observation and precise measurements.
• Precise measurements only.

What happens when a body decays?

• Microbes consume dead tissue to extract nutrients.
• Muscles and ligaments hold the bones in place.
• Muscles contract and swell.
• Microbes consume bones causing them to flake.

What causes pieces of bone to flake?

• Bones expand when exposed to moisture and contract when they dry out, causing flecks of bones to flake off.
• When they come in contact with air.
• When they are exposed to salt water.
• Bones expand when exposed to air and will burst into flakes.

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How could the scientists tell that the body had been wrapped in a shroud? 

• By the position of the skull.
• The shroud was still there.
• By the position of the leg bones.
• By the color of the soil stain.

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What features of the skeleton would a scientist examine to determine the person’s gender? 

•  Pelvic bones; skull; long bones of legs and arms; teeth; chin  
• Pelvic bones and skull only.
• The skull and chin only.
• The Chin and teeth only