Human Nature And The Organization Of Human Society

Forensic Anthropologists are able to give someone who has no face a name and finding Out what happened to them. This is made possible by combining the 3 subfields of anthropology. These fields come together to help solve not only present day cases but with technology and advancements we are able to solve decade old cases. Anthropology can be traced all the way back to ancient Greek writings about human nature and the organization of human society. In the 400s BC lived a Greek historian named Herodotus. Herodotus was the first to write widely on concepts that eventually became a part of anthropology. He describes various peoples from multiple cultures of the Persian empire. Jumping ahead to our next historian who lived in the 14th†¦show more content†¦Since these explorers were not very knowledgeable about the civilians they encountered they were not respectful and they didn’t know the language they spoke. As we move into the 1920s and the 1930s we learn that anthropol ogy assumed the current form with its subfields. Franz Boas was an anthropologist who wanted the field to be seen as a well-respected science. He studied all subfields of anthropology and did a lot of research regarding them. Boas also was allowed to do field work in all of the subfields except archeology. Boas helped make anthropology what it is today by defining the discipline and trained many of the well- known anthropologists’ we have today. The three subfields of forensic anthropology are biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, and archaeology. Biological anthropology is the analysis of the evidence of a crime scene by using biochemical and biological techniques. Cultural anthropology is simply a part of anthropology that focuses on the study of human culture. Archaeology is the study of human history by performing archaeological digs and analyzing the artifacts and remains that are found. When these three subfields are brought together and used on cases there ar e no limits to what can be discovered. Biological anthropology when used in a forensic anthropology