Question

In this activity, you were able to analyze skeletal remains to determine four particular traits of an individual. In a real-life situation, scientists could provide a more detailed description of the individual based on additional information that can be acquired from the bones of this person. Describe at least two other pieces of information you could possibly learn from bone. Provide a specific example for each piece of information.

Answer 1

Answer:

Learning from the skeleton is quite helpful as it not only assists to determine traits of an individual and offer a detailed description about them which is discovered through bones. The two other pieces of information, one could learn from bone are:

- Diseases.  

- How they died.  

To illustrate, let us take an example. A specific example of diseases that could be discovered from bone could be "dental attrition", which is the wearing down of teeth and a particular example that detects or finds out how they died is by finding types of traumas on the skeleton which helps to determine the cause of their death.