Forensic Anthropology

What Can't skeletons tell us?

• Gender

• Height

• Race

• Health

• Intelligence

The skull, vertebral column and rib cage compose the

• appendicular skeleton

• skull sutures

• bone locations

• axial skeleton

The ilium, pubis and ishium make the

• upper arm

• pelvic bone

• skull

• lower leg

The bone of the thigh

• femur

• humerus

• radius

• tibia

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The shoulder blade

• clavicle

• ulna

• carpals

• scapula

Bones move because muscles attach to bones by

• skin

• tendons

• ligaments

• blood vessels

If a skull has square eye sockets, a square mandible, a large upper brow ridge and a large mastoid bone protrusion, it is

• male

• female

A wider pelvic arch, wider pelvic brim and flared ilium belong to a

• female

• male

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The closure of sutures an indicate an older age. Where are sutures found?

• femur

• tibia

• skull

• ribs

An epiphysis line is also know as a

• fracture

• tendon

• spongy bone

• growth plate