
A Laboratory Manual for Forensic Anthropology
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Description
Key Features
- Provides a comprehensive lab manual that is applicable to coursework in forensic anthropology and archaeology
- Covers all practical aspects of forensic anthropology, from field recoveries, to lab analyses
- Includes discussions of human osteology and odontology, examination methods, medicolegal significance, scene processing methods, forensic taphonomy, skeletal processing and sampling, sex estimation, and more
- Emphasizes best practices in the field, providing an approach that is in line with today's professional forensic anthropology
Readership
Introductory and/or upper-division courses in forensic anthropology, also well-suited for forensic anthropology courses taught in forensic science programs. Supplemental reference for other courses involving human identification, skeletal biology, or human osteology, and as a general reference for professionals with limited training in forensic anthropology, including physical anthropologists trained in other areas of the field (such as paleoanthropology or primatology), archaeologists, forensic scientists, dentists, pathologists, crime and death scene investigators, law enforcement, and legal professionals
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Human Osteology and Odontology
3. Examination Methods
4. Medicolegal Significance
5. Forensic Taphonomy
6. Forensic Archaeology and Scene Processing
7. Processing and Preparing Remains
8. Sex Estimation
9. Ancestry Estimation
10. Age Estimation
11. Stature Estimation
12. Individual Skeletal Variation
13. Analysis of Skeletal Trauma
14. Personal Identification
15. Miscellaneous Topics and Final Case Exercise
Product details
- No. of pages: 338
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2018
- Published: January 9, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128122013
- eBook ISBN: 9780128123300
About the Authors
Angi Christensen
Affiliations and Expertise
Nicholas Passalacqua

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Ratings and Reviews
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DavidPimentel Fri May 17 2019
Valuable information
Valuable information to be considered and applied to the actual procedures and protocols
KathrynBaustian Mon Sep 17 2018
Detailed, student-friendly resource
This lab manual offers detailed information in each chapter that can be used to complete lab activities as provided or as elaborated by the instructor. Lab activities are comprehensive and appropriate for medium to high levels of students. For courses targeting an introductory level of the material, some activities may be a little more advanced but these can easily be simplified for lower levels of expectation. Overall a great resource that is fantastic if used in conjunction with the Forensic Anthropology textbook by the same authors but also great just on its own.