Syllabus (ANTHROPOLOGY)

Course Type: MAJ-11

Semester: 7

Course Code: BANTMAJ11C

Course Title: FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY 

(L-P-Tu): 5-1-0

Credit: 6

Practical/Theory: Combined

Course Objective: To understand the role of forensic anthropology to study human remains and identify them. To study the criminal cases as well as the cases of mass disasters and wars. Role of forensic anthropology in building biological profiles is extremely helpful in ca

Learning Outcome: The students will learn about the aims and scope of forensic anthropology; identification of skeletal and non-skeletal human remains; various methods of identifying living persons; and from the practical component they will learn about identification of i

BANTMJ11C: FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY 6 credits

Total Marks: 50 (30 theory + 20 practical)

Unit – I: Introduction to Forensic Anthropology: definition, brief history, scope, applications and integration of Forensic Anthropology.

Unit – II Basic Human Skeletal Biology: identification of human and non-human skeletal remains; ancestry, age, sex and stature estimation from bones; discovery and techniques for recovering skeletonized human remains.

Unit – III Personal identification: complete and partial identification, methods of identification in living persons: bite marks, tattoo marks, fingerprints, lip prints, nails, handwriting, deformities and others.

Unit – IV Serology: identification and individualization of bloodstain, urine, semen and saliva.

Practical 20 marks

Study of human long bones: estimation of age, sex and stature from bones.

Determination of ABO and Rh blood groups of at least 5 subjects).

Analysis and interpretation of finger ball pattern types, palmar main lines and pattern index for at least 5 subjects.

Finger print classification and development of chance prints and statistical treatment of the data collected (at least 5 Subjects).

References

Bass, W.M. 1971. Human Osteology: A Laboratory and Field manual of the Human Skeleton. Columbia: Missouri Archaeological Society.

Black, S. and Ferguson E. 2011. Forensic Anthropology 2000 to 2010. London: CRC Press.

Byers, S. N. 2008. Forensic Anthropology. Boston: Pearson Education Ltd.

Gunn A. 2009. Essential Forensic Biology (2nd ed). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

Modi, R. B. J. P. 2013. A Textbook of Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology. Elsevier.

Reddy, V. R. 1985. Dental Anthropology. New Delhi: Inter-India Publication.

Spencer, C. 2004. Genetic Testimony: A Guide to Forensic DNA Profiling. New Delhi: Pearson.

Mukherji, Dipak, Debaprasad Mukherji, Premananda Bharati and Arijit Mukhopadhyay. 2018. Laboratory Manual for Biological Anthropology. Scholar, Kolkata.