Forensic Anthropology: An Introduction

477 Pages·2012·99.58 MB·English

by  MariaTeresa A. Tersigni-Tarrant (Editor)

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Contents
Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Editors xv
Contributors Biographies xvii
1 Brief History of Forensic Anthropology 1
MARIATERESA A. TERSIGNI-TARRANT AND
NATALIE R. SHIRLEY
2 Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command/Central
Identification Laboratory (JPAC/CIL) History 17
THOMAS D. HOLLAND AND
MARIATERESA A. TERSIGNI-TARRANT
3 Forensic Anthropology Today 25
MARIATERESA A. TERSIGNI-TARRANT
AND NATALIE R. SHIRLEY
4 Human Osteology 33
MARIATERESA A. TERSIGNI-TARRANT
AND NATALIE R. SHIRLEY
5 Human Odontology and Dentition in Forensic Anthropology 69
DEBRA PRINCE ZINNI AND KATE M. CROWLEY
6 Crime Scene Methodology 99
DENISE TO
7 Processing and Inventory of Remains 121
LEE MEADOWS JANTZ
8 Determining the Sex of Unknown Human Skeletal Remains 139
GREGORY E. BERG
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9 Age Estimation Methods 161
NATALIE R. SHIRLEY, ALICE E. FAZLOLLAH,
AND MARIATERESA A. TERSIGNI-TARRANT
10 Age Estimation in Modern Forensic Anthropology 181
BRIDGET F. B. ALGEE-HEWITT
11 Why Do Forensic Anthropologists Estimate Ancestry,
and Why Is It So Controversial? 231
M. KATHERINE SPRADLEY AND KATHERINE WEISENSEE
12 Stature Estimation 245
NATALIE R. SHIRLEY
13 Introduction to Fordisc 3 253
RICHARD L. JANTZ AND STEPHEN D. OUSLEY
14 Low-Velocity Trauma 271
HUGH E. BERRYMAN, NATALIE R. SHIRLEY,
AND ALICJA K. LANFEAR
15 Basic Gunshot Trauma Interpretation in Forensic
Anthropology 291
HUGH E. BERRYMAN, NATALIE R. SHIRLEY,
AND ALICJA K. LANFEAR
16 Taphonomy of Fire 307
JOANNE BENNETT DEVLIN AND NICHOLAS P. HERRMANN
17 Taphonomic Processes: Animal Scavenging 325
JAMES T. POKINES AND MARIATERESA A. TERSIGNI-TARRANT
18 Time since Death Estimation and Bone Weathering:
The Postmortem Interval 339
REBECCA J. WILSON-TAYLOR
19 Taphonomic Processes: Analysis of Fragmentary
Skeletal Remains 381
MARIATERESA A. TERSIGNI-TARRANT