Section 3:
Purpose of the Data Set Used for Skeletal Analysis

Check yourself.... Answer the question below:

Osteological data gathered in a skeletal biology study may provide the broadest scope of information for:

1. identifying specific individuals
2. assessing paleodemographic characteristics (vital statistics) of a cemetery population
3. indentifying disease frequencies in a cemetery population
   
   

The corrrect answer is b, because it includes age, sex, health (mortality, morbidity, etc.)

 

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