In recent years, new studies based on artificial intelligence (AI) have been conducted in the
forensic field, posing new challenges and demonstrating the advantages and disadvantages …

Forensic anthropologists assist law enforcement agencies and medical examiner's offices
with investigations involving human remains, providing insight into trauma analysis, the …

Abstract In 1992, Norm Sauer called for a language shift in which practitioners would move
away from the socially loaded term “race” and replace it with the less provocative term …

One of the parameters forensic anthropologists have traditionally estimated is ancestry,
which is used in the United States as a proxy for social race. Its use is controversial because …

The purpose of this study is to characterize and contextualize the new collection of identified
skeletons housed in the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Coimbra, Portugal …

Ancestry assessment represents a major component of forensic anthropological analysis of
recovered human remains. Interpretations of ancestry, together with other aspects of the …

After the publication of the first article in 2014, 21st Century Identified Skeletal Collection,
housed in the Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology, Department of Life Sciences at the …

Recent discussions have revolved around the concept of ancestry and ancestry estimation;
however, the associated terminology and its theoretical underpinnings have not been …

Using a sample of anonymized US forensic anthropology cases (n= 251) from the FADAMA
database, we assess the degree of concordance between decedents' social identifiers and …

The classification performance of the statistical methods binary logistic regression (BLR),
multinomial and penalized multinomial logistic regression (MLR, pMLR), linear discriminant …