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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Preface
Part 1: Forensic Anthropology and the Crime Scene
Chapter One: Forensic Anthropology in the United States: Past and Present
MariaTeresa A. Tersigni-Tarrant and Natalie R. Langley
Chapter Two: Skeletal Remains as Evidence
Marin A. Pilloud and MariaTeresa A. Tersigni-Tarrant
Chapter Three: Forensic Archaeology: Survey Methods, Scene Documentation, Excavation, and Recovery Methods
Denise To
Chapter Four: Forensic Taphonomy
James Pokines and MariaTeresa A. Tersigni-Tarrant
Part 2: The Skeleton and Skeletal Documentation
Chapter Five: Human Osteology
MariaTeresa A. Tersigni-Tarrant and Natalie R. Langley
Chapter Six: Human Odontology and the Dentition in Forensic Anthropology
Debra Prince Zinni and Kate M. Crowley
Chapter Seven: Skeletal Examination and Documentation
Lee Meadows Jantz
Part 3: Skeletal Individuation and Analyses
Chapter Eight: Sex Estimation of Unknown Human Remains
Gregory E. Berg
Chapter Nine: Ancestry Methods: The Importance, The History And The Practice
M. Katherine Spradley and Katy E. Weisensee
Chapter Ten: Age Estimation Methods
Natalie R. Langley, Alice F. Gooding, MariaTeresa A. Tersigni-Tarrant
Chapter Eleven: Stature Estimation
Natalie R. Langley
Chapter Twelve: Pathological Conditions as Individuating Traits in a Forensic Context
David Hunt and Kerriann Marden
Chapter Thirteen: Analysis of Skeletal Trauma
Natalie R. Langley
Chapter Fourteen: Introduction to Fordisc 3 and Human Variation 窶� Statistics
Richard L. Jantz and Stephen D. Ousley
Part 4: Human Identification and Advanced Forensic Anthropology Applications
Chapter Fifteen: Time Since Death Estimation and Bone Weathering: The Postmortem Interval
Rebecca J. Wilson-Taylor and Angela M. Dautartas
Chapter Sixteen: Methods of Personal Identification
Angi M. Christensen and Bruce E. Anderson
Chapter Seventeen: Mass Fatalities, Mass Graves and the Forensic Investigation of International Crimes
Pierre Guyomarc窶冑 and Derek Congram
Chapter Eighteen: Advanced Scene Topics: Fire and Commingling
Joanne Bennett Devlin and Nicholas P. Herrmann
Appendix A: Application of Dentition In Forensic Anthropology
Debra Prince Zinni and Kate M. Crowley
Appendix B: Age Estimation in Modern Forensic Anthropology
Bridget F. B. Algee-Hewitt
Glossary
Index
