A Companion to Forensic Anthropology	5
	Contents	7
	List of Illustrations	11
	List of Tables	18
	Notes on Contributors	19
	About This Book	31
	Acknowledgments	37
	Part I Introduction and Brief History of Forensic Anthropology	39
	1 Forensic Anthropology: Embracing the New Paradigm	41
	Part II Recovery of Human Remains from Outdoor Contexts	79
	Introduction to Part II	81
	2 Documenting Context at the Outdoor Crime Scene: Why Bother?	86
	3 Determining the Forensic Significance of Skeletal Remains	104
	4 The Application of Ground-Penetrating Radar for Forensic Grave Detection	123
	5 Crime Scene Perspective: Collecting Evidence in the Context of the Criminal Incident	139
	6 The Role of Forensic Anthropology in the Recovery and Interpretation of the Fatal-Fire Victim	151
	7 Forensic Anthropology at the Mass Fatality Incident (Commercial Airliner) Crash Scene	174
	8 Mass Graves and Human Rights: Latest Developments, Methods, and Lessons Learned	195
	9 Archaeology, Mass Graves, and Resolving Commingling Issues through Spatial Analysis	213
	Part III Developments in Forensic Osteology	235
	Introduction to Part III	237
	10 Developments in Forensic Anthropology: Age-at-Death Estimation	240
	11 Skeletal Age Estimation: Where We Are and Where We Should Go	262
	12 Adult Sex Determination: Methods and Application	277
	13 Sexual Dimorphism: Interpreting Sex Markers	286
	14 Morphoscopic Traits and the Assessment of Ancestry	325
	15 Fordisc 3 and Statistical Methods for Estimating Sex and Ancestry	349
	16 Estimating Stature	368
	Part IV Developments in Human Skeletal Trauma Analysis	373
	Introduction to Part IV	375
	17 Interpreting Traumatic Injury to Bone in Medicolegal Investigations	378
	18 The Biomechanics of Gunshot Trauma to Bone: Research Considerations within the Present Judicial Climate	428
	19 Developments in Skeletal Trauma: Blunt-Force Trauma	438
	Part V Advances in Human Identification	451
	Introduction to Part V	453
	20 Advances in the Anthropological Analysis of Cremated Remains	456
	21 Human Identification Using Skull–Photo Superimposition and Forensic Image Comparison	470
	22 DNA Analysis and the Classic Goal of Forensic Anthropology	485
	23 DNA Identification and Forensic Anthropology: Developments in DNA Collection, Analysis, and Technology	500
	Part VI Forensic Taphonomy	509
	Introduction to Part VI	511
	24 Current Research in Forensic Taphonomy	515
	25 The Use of Taphonomy in Forensic Anthropology: Past Trends and Future Prospects	537
	Part VII Forensic Anthropology Beyond Academia	567
	Introduction to Part VII	569
	26 Forensic Anthropologists in Medical Examiner’s and Coroner’s Offices: A History	572
	27 Forensic Anthropology at the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner	587
	28 The Many Hats of a Recovery Leader: Perspectives on Planning and Executing Worldwide Forensic Investigations and Recoveries at the JPAC Central Identification Laboratory	605
	Part VIII Forensic Anthropology Outside North America	631
	Introduction to Part VIII	633
	29 European Perspectives and the Role of the Forensic Archaeologist in the UK	636
	30 The Establishment and Advancement of Forensic Anthropology in South Africa	664
	31 The Application of Forensic Anthropology to the Investigation of Cases of Political Violence	677
	Part IX Ethics, Overview, and the Future of Forensic Anthropology	687
	Introduction to Part IX	689
	32 The Pervasiveness of Daubert	692
	33 Ethics in Forensic Anthropology	704
	34 An “Outsider” Look at Forensic Anthropology	721
	Index	728