Anthropology Vocabulary Worksheet

A waxy substance formed by the decay of animal fat in water
To turn something into carbon by partial burning, fossilization, or chemical treament
A dead person
Preserved a body by chemical means
A dentist who specializes in criminal investigations
A mass of blood material gathered at site of trauma
A physician who is usually appointed by a state or local government to establish the cause of someone's death
Someone who studies the structure and function of bones
Doctors who specialize in the changes caused by disease in tissues and body fluids
Joints, found escpecially in the skull, in which bones are bound tightly together so no movement can occur
Removed liquid
A poisonous chemical element
Birds that scavenge for their food
The process in which parts of a body decompose at different rates
Complex proteins produced by living cells that aid in the body's chemical processes
The point of a wound furthest from the weapon's entry site
the bone located in the throat below the jawbone and usually broken in cases of strangulation
The length of time between death and corpes discovery
The medical examination of a dead body in order to determine the cause and circumstances of death
A condition that lasts over a long period or that frequently recurs
Separated at the joints
Dug up a buried body, usually to look for evidence of a crime
The skull
The professional burning of dead bodies until only ashes remain
Computed tomography; a technique for producing images of the cross-sections of a body