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| Photo Credits | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Series Introduction | |
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| Background Setting for Forensic Anthropology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Overview of the Field | |
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| Education and Training | |
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| Overview of the Book | |
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| The Role of Forensic Anthropology in Historical Context | |
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| The Somewhat Difficult Birth of a Specialty | |
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| The Middle Years | |
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| Approaching Senescence? | |
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| Towards Personal Identification | |
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| Initial Assessments of Skeletal Remains | |
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| Human or Not? | |
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| Number of Individuals Represented | |
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| Assignment of Sex | |
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| Criteria for Sex Attribution in the Adult Skeleton | |
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| Pelvic Traits | |
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| The Skull | |
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| Visual Assessment | |
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| Discriminant Function Analysis | |
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| The Appendicular Bones | |
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| Femur | |
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| Humerus | |
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| Other Appendicular Elements | |
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| Miscellaneous Axial Bones | |
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| Attribution of Sex from the Skeletons of Children | |
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| Figuring the Error Rate | |
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| Age Estimation | |
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| The Early Years | |
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| Dental Age | |
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| Bone Age | |
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| Long Bone Length | |
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| Union of Primary Ossification Centers | |
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| Epiphyseal Fusion | |
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| The Adult Years | |
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| Macroscopic Methods | |
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| Face of the Pubic Symphysis | |
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| Sternal Extremity of the Rib | |
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| The Auricular Surface | |
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| Cranial Suture Closure | |
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| Dental Methods | |
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| Microscopic Methods | |
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| Other Age Indicators | |
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| Concluding Remarks on Adult Age Estimation | |
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| Deciphering Ancestral Background | |
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| The Biological and the Cultural | |
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| The Biological Context | |
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| The Cultural Component | |
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| Skeletal Indicators | |
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| The Skull | |
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| The Postcranium | |
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| Stature Estimation | |
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| How Tall Are You, Really? | |
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| Estimation of Living Stature from Skeletal Remains | |
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| The Fully Method | |
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| Stature Estimation From Long Bone Length | |
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| Comparison of Methods | |
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| Reporting Stature Estimates | |
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| Correcting Stature Estimates for Older Adults | |
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| Secular Trend | |
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| Stature Estimates from Fragmentary Long Bones | |
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| Stature Estimation from Short Bone Length | |
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| Footwear and Foot Length | |
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| Skeletal Markers of Activity and Life History | |
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| Childbirth Indicators | |
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| Handedness | |
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| Other Activity Markers | |
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| Partial Medical History | |
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| Medical Radiology | |
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| Principal Anthropological Roles in Medical-Legal Investigation | |
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| Trauma | |
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| Blunt Force Trauma | |
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| Cranial Fracture | |
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| Hyoid Fracture | |
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| Postcranial Fracture | |
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| Child Abuse | |
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| Penetrating and Perforating Trauma | |
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| Gunshot Wounds | |
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| Sharp Injuries | |
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| The Postmortem Period | |
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| Estimation of the Postmortem Interval | |
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| Postmortem Events | |
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| Carnivore Scavenging | |
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| Cremation | |
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| Has the Body Been Burned? | |
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| Fracturing | |
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| Bone Shrinkage | |
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| Dismemberment | |
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| Ritual Use of Skeletal Material | |
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| Professionalism, Ethics, and the Expert Witness | |
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| The Expert Witness | |
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| Standards and Credentials for Expert Testimony | |
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| Some Practical Issues | |
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| Ethics | |
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| Science in the Courtroom: Two Unfortunate Examples | |
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| When Good Science is not Presented | |
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| When Good Science is Ignored | |
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| Genetics and DNA | |
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| Serology and Mendelian Genetics | |
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| Forensic DNA Analysis | |
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| Legal Considerations | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |