becc623

This question is not meant to be disrespectful so please excuse me if it is. I do love the show bones based off of entertainment value. However, the anthropology students at my school have a game they play with that show. Every time there is a blatant disregard for factual anthropology we take a shot. It's safe to say we get sufficiently wasted. Do the producers of the show ever console you regarding forensic anthropology?I understand that for an hour-long show you can't include that much factual anthropology, however occasionally the information that they use is just completely wrong. Do you ever fight the producers to try and include more accurate science or do you just chalk it up to creative license? Again thank you for the awesome drinking game and study tool has some of my professors use bones as a quiz option, where they stop the show every time or something is incorrect and ask us why it's wrong. On another note, do you have any academic papers that I can find on the Internet?

The most obvious mistake I can recall without going back and watching specific episodes is the idea that sex, age, race of an individual is determinable by one characteristic alone. Bones often calls out one marker and determines the profile of the deceased off of that one marker. Most of the mistakes related to specific osteology can be credited to actor mispronounciation.