Advances in Forensic Taphonomy: Method, Theory, and Archaeological PerspectivesWilliam D. Haglund, Marcella H. Sorg Liberally illustrated with photographs, maps, and other images, Advances in Forensic Taphonomy: Method, Theory, and Archaeological Perspectives offers modern techniques for obtaining clues from postmortem evidence. This bestselling reference examines techniques in recovery and analysis, coverage of mass grave investigation, applications of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA techniques, interpretation of burned human remains, the discrimination of trauma from postmortem change, and taphonomic interpretation of water deaths both at the scene and in the lab. It also discusses microenvironmental variation and decomposition in different environments, as well as geochemical and entomological analysis. |
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... field and , in the case of Hunter , presents a timely international perspective . Forensic pathologist Donald Reay speaks to the compatibility of collecting taphonomic data in the context of contemporary death investigations , its non ...
... field and , in the case of Hunter , presents a timely international perspective . Forensic pathologist Donald Reay speaks to the compatibility of collecting taphonomic data in the context of contemporary death investigations , its non ...
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... field of scientific inquiry , the other being archaeology . In the early nineteenth century , William Buckland ... fields of investigation . Both seek an answer to the question " What are these bones doing here ? " as taphonomist Pat ...
... field of scientific inquiry , the other being archaeology . In the early nineteenth century , William Buckland ... fields of investigation . Both seek an answer to the question " What are these bones doing here ? " as taphonomist Pat ...
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... field of inquiry cannot overlap virtually completely those of the other , and this brings us to the point of my brief history of taphonomy , the reason I find the extension of the definition of taphonomy to include forensics and human ...
... field of inquiry cannot overlap virtually completely those of the other , and this brings us to the point of my brief history of taphonomy , the reason I find the extension of the definition of taphonomy to include forensics and human ...
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... . Sources from both these fields were found wanting in providing specific useful information . It was clear that anthropology and forensic pathol- xxiii ogy had not progressed to the point where useful information Foreword from ...
... . Sources from both these fields were found wanting in providing specific useful information . It was clear that anthropology and forensic pathol- xxiii ogy had not progressed to the point where useful information Foreword from ...
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... field skills , and in which human skeletal analysis was incidental rather than focal , forensic archaeology developed somewhat later and with a different character . Dif- ferences between the two " archaeologies " become compounded at ...
... field skills , and in which human skeletal analysis was incidental rather than focal , forensic archaeology developed somewhat later and with a different character . Dif- ferences between the two " archaeologies " become compounded at ...
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