Fundamentals of Forensic AnthropologyAn essential foundation for the practice of forensic anthropology This text is the first of its level written in more than twenty years. It serves as a summary and guide to the core material that needs to be mastered and evaluated for the practice of forensic anthropology. The text is divided into three parts that collectively provide a solid base in theory and methodology:
The critical and evaluative approach to the primary literature stresses the inherent biological constraints on degrees of precision and certainty, and cautions about potential pitfalls. The practical focus, coupled with theoretical basics, make Fundamentals of Forensic Anthropology ideal for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students in biological anthropology as well as forensic scientists in allied fields of medical-legal investigation. |
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... forensic investigations but also through her craft and artistry as a writer. Forensic anthropologists need to know a great deal about human osteology, skeletal biology, dental anthropology, taphonomy, archeology, genomics, and ...
... osteology beyond the parameters of study routinely addressed by physicians and anatomists. The knowledge, skills and experience that physical anthropologists focused on to derive biological, and even cultural, information from human ...
... osteology/skeletal biology. In practice very few university degrees specify such detail. A Ph.D. in physical anthropology with the same emphasis on some aspect of human osteology is one of the requirements for becoming eligible to sit ...
... osteology. Nevertheless, his expertise was summoned for the Luetgert murder trial, one of the most celebrated cases of the century (Giles and Klepinger, 1999). Loerzel (2003) provides a very thorough account of the Luetgert case, which ...
... osteological evidence of a corpus delicti introduced at ... osteology after 1898. He resigned his museum and academic appointments in 1915 and, as they say, pursued other interests. THE MIDDLE YEARS A period of relative quiescence in forensic ...
Contents
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PART III PRINCIPAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL ROLES IN MEDICALLEGAL INVESTIGATION | 99 |
References | 152 |
Index | 175 |