TB оr nоt TB? Thаt is the questiоn. Reаd the overview аnd complete the questions that follow. By studying bone remains from the past, anthropologists and archeologists can learn much about the health and nutrition of people that lived long ago. Some infectious agents leave specific changes in the bone that can lead to accurate diagnoses even thousands of years after a person has died. Tuberculosis is such a disease and bone infections with this agent are not only recognizable by the unaided eye, today the germ’s DNA can be identified even in burial remains that are hundreds of years old. While hiking in southern Indiana, several college students happened upon an alarming sight; a human skull and several long bones protruding from the ground. The discovery came two days after a heavy rain that had eroded a channel beside a parking lot near a reservoir. Authorities came to the site and began treating it as a crime scene. However, as the burial site was excavated, fragments of wood consistent with a coffin were found as were several square head nails. A number of glass beads were found in the area of the rib cage of the deceased, and near the bones of the right hand was an old picture wedged between two pieces of glass and sealed with beeswax. No clothing remnants were found and there was no headstone or marker. Analysis of Findings Read the report and answer questions 1 and 2. The skeletal remains, along with the artifacts, were studied by a forensic anthropologist who concluded they were from a ‘settler or pioneer’ burial during the late 1800s. The nails from the coffin construction were in general use from the early 1800s through the early 1900s. A check with the county recorder’s office revealed that the parcel of land where the burial was found had been homesteaded in 1822 and had remained in the same family for almost 100 years. However, most of the farm site had been covered by water in 1963 when the local reservoir was created by the Army Corps of Engineers. The person’s age at death was estimated to be between 40 and 50 based on dental wear, absence of long bone epiphyses and closure of cranial sutures. Examination of the pelvis and skull revealed the subject to be a female based on the following points. A woman’s skull is more gracile (delicate) than that of a man. Women have a thin supraorbital margin. The skull of most women has little if any superciliary arches. The pelvis was distinctly that of a female, marked by a larger and more oval shaped pelvic inlet. 1) The skeletal feature that would suggest the remains were that of a man is _____.