Recent Advances in Forensic Anthropological Methods and Research

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Philosophy; 3D modelling; age estimation; age-at-death estimation; ancestry; Bayes' theorem; bioarchaeology; bioerosion; biological profile; blunt force trauma; bone proteomics; CCTV; clavicle; comparative osteology; computed tomography; craniofacial variation; degree of force; disguises; DNA methylation (DNAm); drugs of abuse; education; elliptical Fourier analysis; epigenetic age estimation; ethics; evidence; expertise; face mapping; facial identification; femur length; FISWG; forensic anthropology; forensic facial comparison; forensic pathology; forensic science; forensic sciences; forensic significance; fragmentation; frontal sinus shape; geometric morphometrics; human identification; human osteology; inverse Fourier transform; knowledge; likelihood ratio; machine learning; medication; medicolegal death investigation; microbial decomposition; morphological analysis; multi-tissue age prediction models (APMs); MVC; n/a; neural networks; nonhuman; opinion; outline analysis; pair-matching; pars basilaris shape; photography; PMI; population affinity; professionalization; qualifications; race; radiology; review; Sanger sequencing; skeletal morphology; skeletal trauma; SNaPshot; standards; taphonomy; thermal alteration; thermal fractures
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (258 p.)
• ISBN: 9783036554310; 9783036554327; books978-3-0365-5431-0
• Access: Open Access

Forensic anthropology, while still relatively in its infancy compared to other forensic science disciplines, adopts a wide array of methods from many disciplines for human skeletal identification in medico-legal and humanitarian contexts. The human skeleton is a dynamic tissue that can withstand the ravages of time given the right environment and may be the only remaining evidence left in a forensic case whether a week or decades old. Improved understanding of the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that modulate skeletal tissues allows researchers and practitioners to improve the accuracy and precision of identification methods ranging from establishing a biological profile such as estimating age-at-death, and population affinity, estimating time-since-death, using isotopes for geolocation of unidentified decedents, radiology for personal identification, histology to assess a live birth, to assessing traumatic injuries and so much more.