1. What is answer 1 to your EQ? Be specific in your answer and write it like a thesis statement.
Answer 2 to my EQ "What is the most important factor of a skeletal remain in a criminal investigation?" is determining the horizontal excavation layer in which the remains were found in order to determine the possible time of death.
2. What possible evidence do you have to support this answer?
Possible evidence that I have to support this answer includes:
According to Professor Mark Allen, who teaches the course Anthropology - Intro to Archaeology/Prehistory class at Cal Poly Pomona is a practicing archaeologist who stressed the importance of the analysis of what the soil can teach to an individual. In the forensic view, however, it is suggested that the horizontal (sometimes known as the areal excavation) has the purpose to expose a wide view of a single component of the past: a particular time period, which is often done with block excavations. With this, any possible skeletal remains found can be traced back to the time period in which they were initially buried.
According to the forensic anthropologist Helen Wolcott, alumni from the Forensic Science Academy Club, the environment, most importantly the soil it is contained in, plays an important role in a criminal investigation. If it so happens that the soil had a rather low ambient temperature or was often wet, it can throw off the eact numbers of the maximum time since death, which is what Forensic Anthropologists are often trying to determine. With these factors and disheartening environmental factors, biochemistry has its intervention by preserving information waiting to be interpreted for information.
According to Kathy Reichs, author, professor, producer of Bones, and practicing elite Forensic Anthropologist held a lecture at Middle Tennessee State University detailing her experiences and knowledge in the field. While briefly talking about the importance of a few details that are engraved within skeletal remains, Ms. Reichs comes to the point of her knowledge and application of archaeology, a sub-unit within Archaeology, within her field of study, she discussed how senior isotopes are a scientific phenomena that acts like a GPS device to the exact location of where he body was buried based on chemical decomposition vectors that are released and collected. With this, sci-fi appealing technologies have been used in the field of forensics that were normally capable of archaeological purpose in order to detect if there is a stress market under the soil; most likely can pin-point an areal view of a figurine that is commonly a set of skeletal remains.
3. What source(s) did you find this evidence and/or answer?
Sources that I found my evidence and answer include:
Professor Mark Allen, who teaches the course Anthropology - Intro to Archaeology/Prehistory class at Cal Poly Pomona and who continues to practice archaeology held a lecture about "3 Goals of Americanist Archaeology and the Archaeological Record." PowerPoints were presented as well as papers were written to ensure that the knowledge has been applied in our present day.
Personal interview with Helen Wolcott at the Forensic Science Academy Club meeting. She was my third interview expert who has a Master's Degree credential in Forensic/Physical Anthropology who helped me answer my essential question and educated me more about her expertise on her career as a Forensic Anthropologist. Graduated from California State University of Los Angeles with an emphasis on criminology, she has the knowledge and experience to be a credible source.
Kathy Reichs, an elite board member of the American Board of American Anthropology. Being both an expert in her field and being so dedicated to an abundance of scholar articles, experiments, analysis, as well as investigations, Dr. Reichs presents herself as the ideal credible source that knows a wide variety of details in her field of Forensic Anthropology. Lecture video at Middle Tennessee State University: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzo2ytDIxPc
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