Approach to Methods of Skeletal Analysis

Forensic Anthropology	Skeletal Biology
ID one person Focus on single ID is the end result	Focus on identifying the individual as a representative and part of a whole to determine an overall trend, pattern of past lifeways
Legal implications if errors are made if too precise and exclude info if too broad and not identifying individual	Biocultural reconstruction
Need to be conservative Not too specific and limiting but not too broad and meaningless Ranges as precise and accurate as possible	To achieve goal of establishing patterns of past lifeways look at patterns and trends Methods need not be conservative Can go for general comparisions, means, or averages to better illustrate overall trend