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 …

Medicolegal death investigation requires a multidisciplinary approach to the collection of
data from the crime scene to the autopsy table. Law enforcement processing of the indoor …

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 …

Determining the cause of bone fractures is not only a difficult assessment but also has larger
implications and repercussions, particularly when a forensic anthropologist is tasked with …

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

Liberally illustrated with photographs, maps, and other images, Advances in Forensic
Taphonomy: Method, Theory, and Archaeological Perspectives offers modern techniques for …

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

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 …

The burial environment of remains, deposited in direct contact with soil or (starting) within a
coffin, brings about multiple, often distinctive, taphonomic effects that can be used to …

Perimortem trauma refers to any injury or wound to the body, occurring around the time of
death, that may affect the bone and/or soft tissues (Roberts 1991: 226). In a forensic …