Estimation of age represents a central focus of forensic anthropological analysis of human
skeletal remains and of the living. Advances registered in recent research include the topics …

“the forensic anthropologist cannot discuss the cause and manner of death”? And they even
want to look at the weapon too, as if you did not have tool-mark analysts for that. Some …

An essential foundation for the practice of forensic anthropology This text is the first of its
level written in more than twenty years. It serves as a summary and guide to the core …

Taphonomy studies post mortem damage to animal bones. Palaeopathology is the study of
in vivo lesions in the skeleton. Archaeozoology uses animal remains from archaeological …

Challenges to increase our understanding of how taphonomic processes potentially affect
quantitative and distributional properties of the archaeofaunal record have been responded …

Historically, the role of the archaeology in forensic death investigation has focused on
excavation techniques and documentation of context. Additional skills of the archaeologist …

The objective of this paper was to integrate excavation and post‐processing of
archaeological and osteological contexts and material to enhance the interpretation of these …

Taphonomy established itself in paleontology primarily as a subdiscipline of paleoecology,
but it has evolved into a much broader study of the ways in which preservation affects the …

While it has a long history, the last 30 years have brought considerable advances to the
discipline of forensic anthropology worldwide. Every so often it is essential that these …

One of the first interdisciplinary discussions of taphonomy (the study of how fossil
assemblages are formed) and paleoecology (the reconstruction of ancient ecosystems), this …