Natalie R. Langley, PhD, D-ABFA, is Associate Professor of Anatomy at the LMU-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine, Program Director of the LMU Master of Anatomical Sciences program, and an adjunct faculty member in the University of Tennessee Anthropology Department.MariaTeresa A. Tersigni-Tarrant, PhD, D-ABFA, is an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Center for Anatomical Sciences and Education at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine (SLU SOM), where she serves as the Director of Gross Anatomy Laboratory and Morgue Operations and teaches gross anatomy, embryology and histology.

• AcknowledgementsAbout the EditorsAbout the ContributorsPrefacePart 1: Forensic Anthropology and the Crime SceneChapter One: Forensic Anthropology in the United States: Past and PresentMariaTeresa A. Tersigni-Tarrant and Natalie R. LangleyChapter Two: Skeletal Remains as EvidenceMarin A. Pilloud and MariaTeresa A. Tersigni-TarrantChapter Three: Forensic Archaeology: Survey Methods, Scene Documentation, Excavation, and Recovery MethodsDenise ToChapter Four: Forensic TaphonomyJames Pokines and MariaTeresa A. Tersigni-TarrantPart 2: The Skeleton and Skeletal DocumentationChapter Five: Human OsteologyMariaTeresa A. Tersigni-Tarrant and Natalie R. LangleyChapter Six: Human Odontology and the Dentition in Forensic AnthropologyDebra Prince Zinni and Kate M. CrowleyChapter Seven: Skeletal Examination and DocumentationLee Meadows JantzPart 3: Skeletal Individuation and AnalysesChapter Eight: Sex Estimation of Unknown Human RemainsGregory E. BergChapter Nine: Ancestry Methods: The Importance, The History And The PracticeM. Katherine Spradley and Katy E. WeisenseeChapter Ten: Age Estimation MethodsNatalie R. Langley, Alice F. Gooding, MariaTeresa A. Tersigni-TarrantChapter Eleven: Stature EstimationNatalie R. LangleyChapter Twelve: Pathological Conditions as Individuating Traits in a Forensic ContextDavid Hunt and Kerriann MardenChapter Thirteen: Analysis of Skeletal TraumaNatalie R. LangleyChapter Fourteen: Introduction to Fordisc 3 and Human Variation – StatisticsRichard L. Jantz and Stephen D. OusleyPart 4: Human Identification and Advanced Forensic Anthropology ApplicationsChapter Fifteen: Time Since Death Estimation and Bone Weathering: The Postmortem IntervalRebecca J. Wilson-Taylor and Angela M. DautartasChapter Sixteen: Methods of Personal IdentificationAngi M. Christensen and Bruce E. AndersonChapter Seventeen: Mass Fatalities, Mass Graves and the Forensic Investigation of International CrimesPierre Guyomarc’h and Derek CongramChapter Eighteen: Advanced Scene Topics: Fire and ComminglingJoanne Bennett Devlin and Nicholas P. HerrmannAppendix A: Application of Dentition In Forensic AnthropologyDebra Prince Zinni and Kate M. CrowleyAppendix B: Age Estimation in Modern Forensic AnthropologyBridget F. B. Algee-HewittGlossaryIndex

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Natalie R. Langley, PhD, D-ABFA, is Associate Professor of Anatomy at the LMU-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine, Program Director of the LMU Master of Anatomical Sciences program, and an adjunct faculty member in the University of Tennessee Anthropology Department.MariaTeresa A. Tersigni-Tarrant, PhD, D-ABFA, is an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Center for Anatomical Sciences and Education at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine (SLU SOM), where she serves as the Director of Gross Anatomy Laboratory and Morgue Operations and teaches gross anatomy, embryology and histology.

• AcknowledgementsAbout the EditorsAbout the ContributorsPrefacePart 1: Forensic Anthropology and the Crime SceneChapter One: Forensic Anthropology in the United States: Past and PresentMariaTeresa A. Tersigni-Tarrant and Natalie R. LangleyChapter Two: Skeletal Remains as EvidenceMarin A. Pilloud and MariaTeresa A. Tersigni-TarrantChapter Three: Forensic Archaeology: Survey Methods, Scene Documentation, Excavation, and Recovery MethodsDenise ToChapter Four: Forensic TaphonomyJames Pokines and MariaTeresa A. Tersigni-TarrantPart 2: The Skeleton and Skeletal DocumentationChapter Five: Human OsteologyMariaTeresa A. Tersigni-Tarrant and Natalie R. LangleyChapter Six: Human Odontology and the Dentition in Forensic AnthropologyDebra Prince Zinni and Kate M. CrowleyChapter Seven: Skeletal Examination and DocumentationLee Meadows JantzPart 3: Skeletal Individuation and AnalysesChapter Eight: Sex Estimation of Unknown Human RemainsGregory E. BergChapter Nine: Ancestry Methods: The Importance, The History And The PracticeM. Katherine Spradley and Katy E. WeisenseeChapter Ten: Age Estimation MethodsNatalie R. Langley, Alice F. Gooding, MariaTeresa A. Tersigni-TarrantChapter Eleven: Stature EstimationNatalie R. LangleyChapter Twelve: Pathological Conditions as Individuating Traits in a Forensic ContextDavid Hunt and Kerriann MardenChapter Thirteen: Analysis of Skeletal TraumaNatalie R. LangleyChapter Fourteen: Introduction to Fordisc 3 and Human Variation – StatisticsRichard L. Jantz and Stephen D. OusleyPart 4: Human Identification and Advanced Forensic Anthropology ApplicationsChapter Fifteen: Time Since Death Estimation and Bone Weathering: The Postmortem IntervalRebecca J. Wilson-Taylor and Angela M. DautartasChapter Sixteen: Methods of Personal IdentificationAngi M. Christensen and Bruce E. AndersonChapter Seventeen: Mass Fatalities, Mass Graves and the Forensic Investigation of International CrimesPierre Guyomarc’h and Derek CongramChapter Eighteen: Advanced Scene Topics: Fire and ComminglingJoanne Bennett Devlin and Nicholas P. HerrmannAppendix A: Application of Dentition In Forensic AnthropologyDebra Prince Zinni and Kate M. CrowleyAppendix B: Age Estimation in Modern Forensic AnthropologyBridget F. B. Algee-HewittGlossaryIndex

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Natalie R. Langley, PhD, D-ABFA, is Associate Professor of Anatomy at the LMU-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine, Program Director of the LMU Master of Anatomical Sciences program, and an adjunct faculty member in the University of Tennessee Anthropology Department.MariaTeresa A. Tersigni-Tarrant, PhD, D-ABFA, is an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Center for Anatomical Sciences and Education at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine (SLU SOM), where she serves as the Director of Gross Anatomy Laboratory and Morgue Operations and teaches gross anatomy, embryology and histology.

• AcknowledgementsAbout the EditorsAbout the ContributorsPrefacePart 1: Forensic Anthropology and the Crime SceneChapter One: Forensic Anthropology in the United States: Past and PresentMariaTeresa A. Tersigni-Tarrant and Natalie R. LangleyChapter Two: Skeletal Remains as EvidenceMarin A. Pilloud and MariaTeresa A. Tersigni-TarrantChapter Three: Forensic Archaeology: Survey Methods, Scene Documentation, Excavation, and Recovery MethodsDenise ToChapter Four: Forensic TaphonomyJames Pokines and MariaTeresa A. Tersigni-TarrantPart 2: The Skeleton and Skeletal DocumentationChapter Five: Human OsteologyMariaTeresa A. Tersigni-Tarrant and Natalie R. LangleyChapter Six: Human Odontology and the Dentition in Forensic AnthropologyDebra Prince Zinni and Kate M. CrowleyChapter Seven: Skeletal Examination and DocumentationLee Meadows JantzPart 3: Skeletal Individuation and AnalysesChapter Eight: Sex Estimation of Unknown Human RemainsGregory E. BergChapter Nine: Ancestry Methods: The Importance, The History And The PracticeM. Katherine Spradley and Katy E. WeisenseeChapter Ten: Age Estimation MethodsNatalie R. Langley, Alice F. Gooding, MariaTeresa A. Tersigni-TarrantChapter Eleven: Stature EstimationNatalie R. LangleyChapter Twelve: Pathological Conditions as Individuating Traits in a Forensic ContextDavid Hunt and Kerriann MardenChapter Thirteen: Analysis of Skeletal TraumaNatalie R. LangleyChapter Fourteen: Introduction to Fordisc 3 and Human Variation – StatisticsRichard L. Jantz and Stephen D. OusleyPart 4: Human Identification and Advanced Forensic Anthropology ApplicationsChapter Fifteen: Time Since Death Estimation and Bone Weathering: The Postmortem IntervalRebecca J. Wilson-Taylor and Angela M. DautartasChapter Sixteen: Methods of Personal IdentificationAngi M. Christensen and Bruce E. AndersonChapter Seventeen: Mass Fatalities, Mass Graves and the Forensic Investigation of International CrimesPierre Guyomarc’h and Derek CongramChapter Eighteen: Advanced Scene Topics: Fire and ComminglingJoanne Bennett Devlin and Nicholas P. HerrmannAppendix A: Application of Dentition In Forensic AnthropologyDebra Prince Zinni and Kate M. CrowleyAppendix B: Age Estimation in Modern Forensic AnthropologyBridget F. B. Algee-HewittGlossaryIndex

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