Forensic Archaeology: A Global Perspective

618 Pages·2015·25.28 MB·English

by  W. J. Mike Groen

Forensic archaeology

Forensic archaeology
A global perspective
EditEd by
W.J. Mike Groen
Netherlands Forensic institute (NFi), the Hague, the Netherlands
Nicholas Márquez-Grant
Cranfield Forensic institute, Cranfield University,
defence Academy of the United Kingdom, Shrivenham, UK
and
institute of Human Sciences, School of Anthropology
and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Robert C. Janaway
School of Archaeological Sciences, University of bradford,
bradford, UK
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Cover image:
Figure 1: Mock crime scene investigation of a clandestine burial. © NFi
Figure 2: A mass grave in the province of Cordoba, Argentina. Excavated by EAAF in 2013. © EAAF
Figure 3: GiS image combining digital photography, 3d scan of the grave pit and total Station data. © NFi
Figure 4: J PAC-CiL recovery team members set up a grid at a Vietnam War-era aircraft crash site,
Khammouan, Lao People’s democratic Republic, May 2011. © US department of the Navy, thiep
Nguyen.
Figure 5: A n air crash site in the Madang province, independent State of Papua New Guinea, related to
WWii. Excavated by the JPAC-CiL in 2010. © Air Force Staff Sgt Aaron Allmon ii.
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Contents
Biographies of editors, ix 9 The Working Group ‘Forensic Archaeology’ at the
German Bundeskriminalamt, 67
Biographies of contributors, xi
Ralf Neumann, Karsten Klenke and Andrea Fischer
Foreword by Clyde Collins Snow, xxvii 10 Forensic archaeology in Greece, 77
Konstantinos Moraitis and Constantine Eliopoulos
Foreword by Jeremy Sarkin, xxxv
11 Forensic archaeology and anthropology
Foreword by Colin Hope, xli
in Hungary: current trends and future
Preface by W.J. Mike Groen, xliii perspectives, 83
Éva Susa, Kinga Éry, László Kovács, Mátyás Szo″ke
Acknowledgments, xlv
and Mária Molnos
Glossary of abbreviations, xlvii 12 Forensic archaeology in Italy: the difficult birth
of a discipline, 91
Introduction, li
Matteo Borrini
W.J. Mike Groen, Nicholas Márquez-Grant
and Robert C. Janaway 13 Forensic archaeology in Lithuania, 99
Rimantas Jankauskas
Part 1 Europe 14 Forensic archaeology in the Netherlands:
uncovering buried and scattered evidence, 109
1 Forensic archaeology and anthropology Roosje de Leeuwe and W.J. Mike Groen
in Austria, 3
15 Forensic archaeology in Poland: theory
Fabian Kanz and Jan Cemper-Kiesslich
and practice, 121
2 DVI Belgium: victim identification and  Maciej Trzciński and Tomasz Borkowski
necrosearch, 9
16 Forensic archaeology in Romania: present
Birgit Van Denhouwe and Eline M.J. Schotsmans
and future of a new discipline, 129
3 Bosnia and Herzegovina: forensic archaeology in Annamaria Diana
support of national and international organisations
17 Forensic archaeology in the Russian
undertaking criminal investigations and identifying
Federation, 139
the missing from 1996 to 2013, 19
Alexey Abramov, Elizaveta Veselovskaya, Alexey Dolgov,
Ian Hanson, Adnan Rizviç and Thomas J. Parsons
Asya V. Engovatova, Maria B. Mednikova,
4 Forensic archaeology in Bulgaria – problems and Sergey Nikitin and Azrat Safarov
perspectives, 33
18 Forensic archaeology in Serbia: from exhumation
Ilian Boyanov to excavation, 149
5 Croatia (Hrvatska): from WWII and the 1991 war Marija Djuric ́and Andrej Starović
to contemporary forensic cases, 39 19 Forensic archaeology in the Slovak Republic, 159
Mario Šlaus and Anja Petaros Sonǎ Masnicová, Radoslav Benǔ š and Zuzana Obertová
6 Forensic archaeology in the Czech Republic, 47 20 Inclusion of archaeology in criminal
Petr Velemínský, Miluše Dobisíková, Eliška Maxová investigations – Slovenia, 165
and Jana Velemínská Pavel Jamnik
7 Forensic archaeology in Denmark, 55 21 The use of archaeology in the criminal and 
Marie Louise Jørkov and Niels Lynnerup medico-legal context in Spain, 173
Nicholas Márquez-Grant, Miguel Ángel Vázquez Díaz
8 Forensic archaeology in the French context:
and Raquel Meléndez González
the role of the Forensic Sciences Institute of the
French National Gendarmerie, 59 22 Forensic archaeology and anthropology
Yves Schuliar, Patrice Georges, Florent Ducrettet, in Switzerland, 183
Franck Nolot and Jean Richebé Sandra Lösch, Christian Jackowski and Christian Zingg
v
vi Contents
23 Introduction to forensic archaeology 38 The current status of forensic archaeology
in the United Kingdom, 189 in New Zealand, 319
John Hunter and Cecily Cropper Edward Ashby and Beatrice Hudson
24 Forensic archaeology in the United Kingdom 39 The archaeological investigation of crime scenes
and quality assurance, 197 and humanitarian cases that involve graves and
Robert C. Janaway human remains in South Africa, 327
W. Coen Nienaber
25 Forensic archaeology: the European
collaboration, 207 40 Anthropology module of Mass ID Manager (MIM)
W.J. Mike Groen in the Republic of Korea: potential for forensic
archaeology, 337
Nak-Eun Chung, Yi-Suk Kim and U-Young Lee
Part 2 The Americas
41 Forensic archaeology: an introduction from the
26 Forensic archaeology and anthropology
United Arab Emirates, 349
in Brazil, 215
Khudooma Saeed Al Naimi
Marco Aurelio Guimarães, Raffaela Arrabaça
Francisco, Rafael de Abreu e Souza 42 The heroic and the hidden dead: Zimbabwe and
and Martin Paul Evison exhumations, 359
Shari Eppel
27 Canadian forensic archaeology: a Mari Usque
ad Mare, ad hoc, 223
Derek Congram Part 4 (Non-) Governmental Organisations
28 A brief account of the past and present 43 Forensic archaeology: the Argentinian way, 369
circumstances of forensic archaeology Luis Fondebrider and Vivian Scheinsohn
in Costa Rica, 231
44 Forensic archaeology and the Australian
Roxana Ferllini
war dead, 379
29 Forensic archaeology in Mexico: the intermittent Denise Donlon, Anthony Lowe and Brian Manns
and unfinished application of the forensic
45 Forensic archaeology in Chile: the contribution
archaeological techniques and methods, 239
of the Chilean state to our memory, truth and
Carlos Jácome Hernández and Lilia Escorcia Hernández
justice, 389
30 Forensic scientific practice in Panama, 247 Marisol Intriago Leiva, Joyce Stockins Ramírez
Ann H. Ross and José Vicente Pachar Lucio and Claudia Garrido Varas
31 Forensic archaeology in the United States, 255 46 The role of forensic archaeology in revealing
Luis L. Cabo and Dennis C. Dirkmaat the truth of Colombia’s armed conflict:
a critical perspective, 399
32 Forensic archaeology and the recovery
Ana Carolina Guatame García, Carolina Puerto
of human remains in Venezuela, 271
Valdivieso and Eileen Buitrago Pérez
Livia Margarita Muñoz Andrade
47 Forensic archaeology and the independent
commission for the location of victims’ remains, 407
Part 3 Africa, Asia and Oceania
Niamh A. McCullagh and Geoffrey C. Knupfer
33 The use of (forensic) archaeology in Australia in
48 Forensic archaeology and the International
the search and recovery of buried evidence:
Commission on Missing Persons: setting standards
a review, 279
in an integrated process, 415
Soren Blau and Jon Sterenberg
Ian Hanson
34 Forensic archaeology: an Indian perspective, 287
49 Forensic archaeology in humanitarian contexts;
Anil Aggrawal
ICRC action and recommendations, 427
35 Forensic archaeology in Lebanon, 293 Morris V. Tidball-Binz and Ute Hofmeister
Lynn Maalouf and Rita Clovis Maalouf
50 The Inforce Foundation, 439
36 Forensic sciences in Libya and mass grave Roland Wessling
investigation, 301
51 Forensic archaeology underwater: JPAC’s
Amin Attia Alemam
inventory, investigation and recovery of US
37 Forensic archaeology in Nepal, 309 casualties of war from submerged sites, 453
Susan Appleyard Andrew T. Pietruszka
Contents vii
52 Forensic archaeology in Peru: between science 56 The development of forensic archaeology
and human rights activism, 463 and anthropology by the Uruguayan Forensic
José Pablo Baraybar and Franco Mora Anthropology Team, 499
José M. López Mazz and Alicia Lusiardo
53 Physicians for human rights: the role of forensic
archaeology in transitional justice contexts, 471 57 The Returning Casualty: the excavation
Stefan Schmitt, Amanda Sozer, Gillian Fowler of a communist re-education camp cemetery
and Dallas Mazoori at Lang Da, Yen Bai Province, Vietnam, 507
Julie Martin
54 Recovering memories of the Portuguese Colonial
War through forensic anthropology, 479
Eugénia Cunha, Maria Teresa Ferreira, Part 5 Concluding Remarks
Sónia Codinha, Gonçalo Carnim,
Concluding remarks, 517
Carina Marques and Cláudia Umbelino
W.J. Mike Groen, Nicholas Márquez-Grant
55 Contemporary exhumations in Spain: recovering and Robert C. Janaway
the missing from the Spanish Civil War, 489
Francisco Etxeberria, Lourdes Herrasti, Index, 537
Fernando Serrulla and Nicholas Márquez-Grant