Great apes, our closest living relatives, live longer and mature later than most other
mammals and modern humans are even later‐maturing and potentially longer‐lived …

The four main features of biological identity are sex, age, stature, and ethnic background.
The forensic osteologist aims to establish these attributes for an individual from their skeletal …

Building on the success of their previous book, White and Folkens' The Human Bone
Manual is intended for use outside the laboratory and classroom, by professional forensic …

The Archaeology of Human Bones provides an up to date account of the analysis of human
skeletal remains from archaeological sites, introducing students to the anatomy of bones …

Death had an important and pervasive presence in the middle ages. It was a theme in
medieval public life, finding expression both in literature and art. The beliefs and procedures …

Transition Analysis—a recent skeletal age‐estimation procedure (Boldsen et al.:
Paleodemography: age distributions from skeletal samples (2002) 73–106)—is evaluated …

Skeletal identification has a long tradition in both physical and forensic anthropology. The
process generally begins with formulation of a biological profile (osteobiography); …

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 …

Phenotypic variation across mammals is extensive and reflects their ecological
diversification into a remarkable range of habitats on every continent and in every ocean …

This volume explores indicators from a variety of biological fields used in human
identification and illustrates the basic principles of each discipline. The contributors explain …