Routledge Handbook of Forensic Anthropology

Nicholas V. Passalacqua is Associate Professor and Director of the Forensic Anthropology Laboratory at The Ohio State University. He is the current editor of Forensic Anthropology and has served as vice president of the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, Chair of the Anthropology Consensus Body of the American Academy of Forensic Science Standards Board, and the co-Chair of the Anthropology Subcommittee of the Organization of Scientific Area Committees.Marin A. Pilloud is Professor in the anthropology department at the University of Nevada, Reno. She has served on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, as president of the Dental Anthropology Association, and chair of the anthropology section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

• Part I. Foundations and History of Forensic Anthropology 1. Introduction to Forensic Anthropology 2. A History of Forensic Anthropology 3. Standardization of Qualifications and Professionalism for Forensic Anthropology Practitioners 4. Forensic Anthropology and Evolutionary Theory 5. Forensic Anthropology and the American Board of Forensic Anthropology 6. Forensic Anthropology within the Medical Examiner/Coroner System 7. Forensic Anthropology and the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency 8. Forensic Bioarchaeology 9. Forensic Anthropology and Expert Witness Testimony in the United States 10. Overview of Human Skeletal Collections 11.Quality Assurance Planning for the Forensic Anthropology Laboratory 12. Training in Forensic Anthropology Part II. Forensic Archaeology 13. Forensic Archaeology, Forensic Taphonomy, and Outdoor Crime Scene Reconstruction 14. Best Practices for Employing Photogrammetry to Document Scenes Involving Skeletal Remains on the Ground Surface Part III. Laboratory Analyses 15. Subadult Sex Estimation and OnSEt: The Ontogenetic Subadult Sex Estimation System 16. Adult Sex Estimation 17. Subadult Age Estimation 18. Skeletal and Dental Methods for Adult Age Estimation 19. Stature Estimation 20. Estimating Population Affinity and Ancestry in Forensic Anthropology: An Overview 21. Commingled Skeletal Remains: Resolution Efforts from the Field to the Laboratory 22. The Importance of the Biological Profile from the Vantage Point of Accuracy, Potential Harm, and Relevance in the Current Age Part IV. Identification 23. Methods of Personal Identification in Forensic Anthropology 24. The Use of Stable Isotope Analysis for Geolocation in Forensic Anthropology 25. Addressing Identification Hypotheses Utilizing Genetic Technologies 26. The Use of Computed Tomography in Positive Identification Part V. Trauma 27. A Practical Guide to the Identification and Interpretation of Sharp Force Trauma in Bone 28. Blunt Trauma and Fractography 29. High Velocity Projectile Trauma Part VI. Taphonomy 30. The Taphonomy of Burned Human Remains 31. Current Perspective on Postmortem Interval Estimation in Forensic Anthropology 32. Taphonomic Effects Encountered in Forensic Anthropology Cases: Burial, Terrestrial Surface, and Marine Environments 33. Modern Forensic Significance Assessments: A Cautionary Tale from the Oklahoma Office of the Chief Medical Examiner Forensic Anthropology Division Part VII. Forensic Anthropology as a Humanitarian Discipline 34. Death Investigation and Medicolgeal Systems in the United States: How Forensic Anthropology Fits into the Broader Medicolegal Death Investigation System 35. Ethical Practice in Forensic Anthropology 36. Advocacy, Activism, and Forensic Anthropology as Engaged Anthropology 37. Vicarious Trauma and Forensic Anthropology 38. Sociocultural Anthropology and Forensic Anthropology 39. The Role of NamUs in Forensic Anthropology Part VIII. Global Approaches to Forensic Anthropology 40. The International Committee of the Red Cross's Forensic Unit and Humanitarian Forensic Anthropology 41. The Mandate of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) 42. The Application of Forensic Anthropology in the Identification Process of Missing Persons from a Post-Conflict Context: The Humanitarian Project of the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus 43. FASE: Shaping the Past, Present, and Future of Forensic Anthropology in Europe 44. Current Status of Forensic Anthropology in the UK 45. Forensic Anthropology in Latin America: A Critical Reassessment of its Current Epistemological Boundaries