Forensic Anthropology

• CHAPTERS 2-10 OPEN WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND END WITH A CONCLUSION. ; 1. INTRODUCTION ; Forensic Anthropology: A Brief History (1972-2006) ; What Is Forensic Anthropology Today? ; Where Do Forensic Anthropologists Work? ; Is Forensic Anthropology Expanding in the United States? ; Forensic Anthropology Outside the United States ; Research in Forensic Anthropology Today ; Forensic Anthropology in Perspective ; 2. THE MEDICOLEGAL SYSTEM ; The Medicolegal System ; Jurisdiction ; Cause and Manner of Death ; Autopsy and Postmortem Examinations ; 3. EVIDENCE AND THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM ; Evidence ; Evidence Interpretation: Rationality versus Parsimony ; The Judicial System: An Overview ; Testifying as a Witness ; Homicide ; 4. CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION: IDENTIFYING MEDICOLEGAL REMAINS, SEARCH STRATEGIES, AND SCENE DOCUMENTATION ; Identifying Remains of Medicolegal Significance ; Differentiating Human from Animal Bone and Nonbiological Materials ; Jurisdiction and the Crime Scene ; Evaluating Scenes ; Search Strategies ; Evidence ; Documentation ; Burials ; Report Writing ; 5. BEGINNING THE IDENTIFICATION PROCESS: DEVELOPING A BIOLOGICAL PROFILE ; Theories and Methods in Forensic Anthropology ; The Estimation of Sex from Skeletal Remains ; The Estimation of Age-at-Death from Skeletal Remains ; Ancestry ; Stature Estimation ; Other Physical Features ; 6. PATHOLOGY AND TRAUMA ASSESSMENT ; The Language of Pathology, Anatomy, and Medicine ; Pathology: An Overview ; Trauma Assessment ; Gunshot Wound Interpretation ; 7. FORENSIC TAPHONOMY ; Forensic Taphonomy ; The Goals of Forensic Taphonomy ; 8. PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION ; How Identification Is Established ; Categories of Identification ; Methods of Positive Identification ; Alternative Medical Imaging ; Impact of Daubert on Positive Identification ; Photographic Superimposition and Facial Recognition ; 9. MASS DEATH AND INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS ; War Crimes ; Personal Identification ; Humanitarian versus Medicolegal Response ; Mass Graves ; Objectivity ; 10. BIOHISTORY: HISTORICAL QUESTIONS, METHODS, AND ETHICS ; Biohistory: Past and Present ; Noninvasive Analyses ; A Case Study in Biohistorical and Forensic Investigation: Billy the Kid ; Glossary ; References Cited and Related Bibliographic Items ; Index

"This book is definitely one that I would use in my classes. As a reference text it is one that all practicing forensic anthropologists will want to own and will want their students to have. Other volumes do not provide a comprehensive resource for the challenges facing us today. Such a volume as [this one] will certainly advance that cause."--Mary H. Manhein, Louisiana State University and Deputy Coroner of East Baton Rouge Parish