Evidence excavacated from mass graves and clandestine burials has played an important
role in the international prosecution of human rights abuses as well as in individual criminal …

From at least Upper Palaeolithic times, we may suppose that the main agents responsible
for assemblages of human bones are humans themselves. But, how did humans treat their …

Physical anthropology has long been a necessary part of criminal investigation.
Archaeology, which is another branch of anthropology, has rarely, if ever, been used even …

Provides comprehensive coverage of everything that students and practitioners need to
know about working in the field of forensic anthropology Forensic anthropology has been …

Anthropology, along with chemistry, geology, physics, medicine, and mathematics, consists
of scientific modes of inquiry and techniques that have application for the public good …

The recovery of evidence of clothing and associated materials on buried bodies is essential
to both forensic and archaeological investigations. In criminal cases clothing will frequently …

Bioarchaeology is the study of ancient and historic human remains in a richly configured
context that includes all possible reconstructions of the cultural and environmental variables …

Close team-work between archaeologists and palaeobiologists is of relatively recent date.
From the palaeobiologist's point of view the work is exciting and challenging. The work is …