Overview
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Aurore Schmitt
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Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Populations du Passé, Université Bordeaux 1, Talence, France
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Eugénia Cunha
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Departamento de Antropologia, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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João Pinheiro
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Serviço Tanatologia Forense, Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal, Coimbra, Portugal
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Two Sciences, One Objective
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- Eugénia Cunha, Cristina Cattaneo
Pages 39-53
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Aging Living Young Individuals
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- Francesco Introna, Carlo P. Campobasso
Pages 57-82
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Pathophysiology of Death and Forensic Investigation: From Recovery to Cause of Death
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- Henri Duday, Mark Guillon
Pages 117-157
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- Jo�E3o Pinheiro, Eugénia Cunha
Pages 159-195
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Biological Identity
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Front Matter
Pages 223-223
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- Jaroslav Bruzek, Pascal Murail
Pages 225-242
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- Mary E. Lewis, Ambika Flavel
Pages 243-257
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- Eric Baccino, Aurore Schmitt
Pages 259-280
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- John Albanese, Shelley R. Saunders
Pages 281-316
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- Lyle W. Konigsberg, Ann H. Ross, William L. Jungers
Pages 317-331
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- Cristina Cattaneo, Danilo De Angelis, Davide Porta, Marco Grandi
Pages 359-379
About this book
Recent political, religious, ethnic, and racial conflicts, as well as mass disasters, have significantly helped to bring to light the almost unknown dis- pline of forensic anthropology. This science has become particularly useful to forensic pathologists because it aids in solving various puzzles, such as id- tifying victims and documenting crimes. On topics such as mass disasters and crimes against humanity, teamwork between forensic pathologists and for- sic anthropologists has significantly increased over the few last years. This relationship has also improved the study of routine cases in local medicolegal institutes. When human remains are badly decomposed, partially skelet- ized, and/or burned, it is particularly useful for the forensic pathologist to be assisted by a forensic anthropologist. It is not a one-way situation: when the forensic anthropologist deals with skeletonized bodies that have some kind of soft tissue, the advice of a forensic pathologist would be welcome. Forensic anthropology is a subspecialty/field of physical anthropology. Most of the background on skeletal biology was gathered on the basis of sk- etal remains from past populations. Physical anthropologists then developed an indisputable “know-how”; nevertheless, one must keep in mind that looking for a missing person or checking an assumed identity is quite a different matter. Pieces of information needed by forensic anthropologists require a higher level of reliability and accuracy than those granted in a general archaeological c- text. To achieve a positive identification, findings have to match with e- dence, particularly when genetic identification is not possible.
Reviews
"... an important contribution to the rapidly growing literature in forensic anthopology ..." - International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
"...a detailed guide to the techniques involved in analyzing and interpreting skeletal remains in a medicolegal context." -Canadian Society of Forensic Science Journal
Editors and Affiliations
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Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Populations du Passé, Université Bordeaux 1, Talence, France
Aurore Schmitt
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Departamento de Antropologia, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Eugénia Cunha
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Serviço Tanatologia Forense, Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal, Coimbra, Portugal
João Pinheiro
