Since work began on the first volume Forensic Taphonomy in 1993 (Haglund and Sorg,
1997a), traditional taphonomy and forensic research has undergone significant change …

As the quotes above illustrate, Weigelt (1927) foresaw the importance of forensic taphonomy
early on; 70 years later, Ubelaker (1997) reaffirmed the now recognized importance of …

In attempting to understand the burial and postmortem process, taphonomists can be seen
to have adopted two complementary lines of approach (Quinney 2000):(1) neotaphonomy or …

Taphonomy is the science of postmortem processes, and forensic taphonomy brings that
science to bear on solving forensic problems. In fact, taphonomy science potentially …

A truly interdisciplinary approach to this core subject within Forensic Science Combines
essential theory with practical crime scene work Includes case studies Applicable to all time …

The main goals in any forensic skeletal analysis are to answer who is the person
represented (individualization), how that person died (trauma/pathology) and when that …

The field of taphonomy was generally defined by Efremov in 1940 as the study of the
processes by which organic remains pass from the biosphere into the lithosphere as the …

Physical anthropologists who work only with ancient remains may be lulled into a sense of
false security regarding their ability to designate individual skeletal remains as being of a …

Links have recently been established between the study of death assemblages by
archaeologists and paleontologists (taphonomy) and the application of physical …

Funerary taphonomy has come of age as an important field in osteoarchaeology. Its goal is
to reconstruct funerary practices by using taphonomic evidence, including both evidence …