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Essay / Forensic Science - 535
A forensic scientist was walking his dog. But the dog broke free and ran. When she finally retrieved it, the ground was dug up. The dog pulls out a bone and realizes it's a human bone. As a forensic anthropologist, she immediately reports the “discovery” to the police. Making every effort, scientists, including herself, will investigate and identify the remains of a human body based on concrete evidence. As will be proven, carrying out a step-by-step analysis process and consulting a few people will help in the identification of the body. To begin with, the analysis part should be done after carefully removing the bones. The first step is to clean the bones to better identify the victim. If the fabric had remained in place, there would have been a problem because it can block important details of the skull. The text “Giving Faces to the Lost” states: “To model the skull, the bones must first be cleaned… Once the bones are clean and dry, the artist prepares the skull or makes a cast…” (Libal). The second step is to look at the bones and identify the details. It is to understand...