Describe Antemortem, Perimortem and Postmortem injuries and explain how they are recognized

This paper has two parts:
Part A: In the NPR video you watched entitled “Whose Bones are These?” it was never fully clear what should have been done with the skeleton that was part of the school’s art department. In your opinion, what do you think is the most ethical thing to do if a human burial, which may be hundreds, maybe thousands of years old is discovered? Should they be left to rest where they could eventually be disturbed by a less empathetic being? What if they were found during construction work – could no one ever build on that site? Should they be exhumed and studied for the benefit of humanity – perhaps against the wishes or beliefs of that person’s culture? Should they be kept safe in a museum? Should their bones be relocated to another burial site – where they could potentially confuse future archaeologists? What about skeletons from archaeological sites which have already been part of university or museum collections for decades – would they still be subject to these rules or are they outside the statute of limitation despite having been acquired often by nefarious means? Should family or dependents get to decide what to do even if we can never be 100% sure who it belongs to? Who owns the past?
Part B:
1. Contrast Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology

2. Describe Antemortem, Perimortem and Postmortem injuries and explain how they are recognized

3. Explain how behaviors and activity patterns are interpreted from skeletal remains

4. Describe the methods used to identify time since death, age at death, and biological sex

5. Describe the role of DNA and mtDNA in identification of remains

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