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Anthropologist-Directed Triage: Three Distinct Mass Fatality Events Involving Fragmentation of Human Remains

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Recovery, Analysis, and Identification of Commingled Human Remains

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Mundorff, A.Z. (2008). Anthropologist-Directed Triage: Three Distinct Mass Fatality Events Involving Fragmentation of Human Remains. In: Adams, B.J., Byrd, J.E. (eds) Recovery, Analysis, and Identification of Commingled Human Remains. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-316-5_7

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