Week 5 update Monday Gillian sent me a…

Week 5 update
Monday – Gillian sent me a 12 page skeleton evaluation form which detailed things like age, sex and height. I spent the day doing that.
Tuesday – The previous set of photographs looked too dark (though they looked ok though the camera’s screen) and so I had to do them again. This time I used the flash with both the diffuser on and set on low in order to get the photographs light enough without being washed out.
Wednesday – I went up to the analytical labs to ask how I would analyse the soil/clay I got out of the skull. Unfortunately the tests would take much longer then the remaining time left on the project, and so this will have to be done by the next person. I also measured the skull using the method in ‘Standards for Data Collection from Human Skeletal Remains’.
Thursday – I re-measured the skull using a set of digital callipers to make sure they were right, I then planned my UROS report.
Friday – Friday was a short day, I used the measurements in a program called Foredisk 3.1 in order to determine the race of the skull. Using both the Forensic and Howell databases it was determined that the skull belonged to a white male, which is what I expected it to be.