the day that your shadowing begins, dr. williams covers some ground rules for working at a possible crime scene with you and the group of students that have accompanied him to the construction site. dr. williams is here to first try to determine whether this is a crime scene or an anthropological site, but he explains that the rules are basically the same for working at an anthropological site. from the photographs he has reviewed, it appears that the remains are human skeletons. determining information from human skeletal remains could help to determine the individuals' identities, the time period in which they lived, and possibly how they died. dr. williams asks the group how this information is determined from just skeletal remains. the short discussion of the structure and function of the human skeleton and the different markings on individual bones that followed brought hours of anatomy laboratory experience to life. forensic anthropologists must commit many normal bone markings to memory. one of the other students in the group points to a small, sharp process on the skull and identifies it as the foramen magnum. you don't remember exactly where the foramen magnum is, but you know the student is incorrect because