A Companion to Forensic Anthropology 1st Edition by Dennis Dirkmaat ISBN 1405191236 9781405191234

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ISBN 10: 1405191236

ISBN 13: 978-1405191234

Author:  Dennis Dirkmaat 

A Companion to Forensic Anthropology 1st Edition: A Companion to Forensic Anthropology presents the most comprehensive assessment of the philosophy, goals, and practice of forensic anthropology currently available, with chapters by renowned international scholars and experts.

• Highlights the latest advances in forensic anthropology research, as well as the most effective practices and techniques used by professional forensic anthropologists in the field
• Illustrates the development of skeletal biological profiles and offers important new evidence on statistical validation of these analytical methods.
• Evaluates the goals and methods of forensic archaeology, including the preservation of context at surface-scattered remains, buried bodies and fatal fire scenes, and recovery and identification issues related to large-scale mass disaster scenes and mass grave excavation.

 

A Companion to Forensic Anthropology 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part I: Introduction and Brief History of Forensic Anthropology

• Forensic anthropology: embracing the new paradigm

Part II: Recovery of Human Remains from Outdoor Contexts

• Documenting context at the outdoor crime scene: why bother?
• Determining the forensic significance of skeletal remains
• The application of ground-penetrating radar for forensic grave detection
• Crime scene perspective: collecting evidence in the context of the criminal incident
• The role of forensic anthropology in the recovery and interpretation of the fatal-fire victim
• Forensic anthropology at the mass fatality incident (commercial airliner) crash scene
• Mass graves and human rights: latest developments, methods, and lessons learned
• Archaeology, mass graves, and resolving commingling issues through spatial analysis

Part III: Developments in Forensic Osteology

• Developments in forensic anthropology: age-at-death estimation
• Skeletal age estimation: where we are and where we should go
• Adult sex determination: methods and application
• Sexual dimorphism: interpreting sex markers
• Morphoscopic traits and the assessment of ancestry
• Fordisc 3 and statistical methods for estimating sex and ancestry
• Estimating stature

Part IV: Developments in Human Skeletal Trauma Analysis

• Interpreting traumatic injury to bone in medicolegal investigations
• The biomechanics of gunshot trauma to bone: research considerations within the present judicial climate
• Developments in skeletal trauma: blunt-force trauma

Part V: Advances in Human Identification

• Advances in the anthropological analysis of cremated remains
• Human identification using skull–photo superimposition and forensic image comparison
• DNA analysis and the classic goal of forensic anthropology
• DNA identification and forensic anthropology: developments in DNA collection, analysis, and technology

Part VI: Forensic Taphonomy

• Current research in forensic taphonomy
• The use of taphonomy in forensic anthropology: past trends and future prospects

Part VII: Forensic Anthropology Beyond Academia

• Forensic anthropologists in medical examiner’s and coroner’s offices: a history
• Forensic anthropology at the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner
• The many hats of a recovery leader: perspectives on planning and executing worldwide forensic investigations and recoveries at the JPAC Central Identification Laboratory

Part VIII: Forensic Anthropology Outside North America

• European perspectives and the role of the forensic archaeologist in the UK
• The establishment and advancement of forensic anthropology in South Africa
• The application of forensic anthropology to the investigation of cases of political violence

Part IX: Ethics, Overview, and the Future of Forensic Anthropology

• The pervasiveness of Daubert
• Ethics in forensic anthropology
• An “outsider” look at forensic anthropology

 

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