Recent advances in forensic anthropological methods and research / / Ann H. Ross, Eugénia Cunha.

• TeilnehmendeR: Ross, Ann H.,; Cunha, Eugénia,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel : : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (258 pages)

Forensic anthropology, while still relatively in its infancy compared to other forensic science disciplines, adopts a wide array of methods from many disciplines for human skeletal identification in medico-legal and humanitarian contexts. The human skeleton is a dynamic tissue that can withstand the ravages of time given the right environment and may be the only remaining evidence left in a forensic case whether a week or decades old. Improved understanding of the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that modulate skeletal tissues allows researchers and practitioners to improve the accuracy and precision of identification methods ranging from establishing a biological profile such as estimating age-at-death, and population affinity, estimating time-since-death, using isotopes for geolocation of unidentified decedents, radiology for personal identification, histology to assess a live birth, to assessing traumatic injuries and so much more.

Table of Contents

About the Editors -- Recent Advances in Forensic Anthropological Methods and Research -- Adult Skeletal Age-at-Death Estimation through Deep Random Neural Networks: A New Method and Its Computational Analysis -- How Do Drugs Affect the Skeleton? Implications for Forensic Anthropology -- Age-at-Death Estimation of Fetuses and Infants in Forensic Anthropology: A New "Coupling" Method to Detect Biases Due to Altered Growth Trajectories -- Identifying Blunt Force Traumatic Injury on Thermally Altered Remains: A Pilot Study Using Sus scrofa -- The Effects of Cranial Orientation on Forensic Frontal Sinus Identification as Assessed by Outline Analyses -- Forensic Tools for Species Identification of Skeletal Remains: Metrics, Statistics, and OsteoID -- Providing a Forensic Expert Opinion on the "Degree of Force": Evidentiary Considerations -- A Blood-Bone-Tooth Model for Age Prediction in Forensic Context -- Exploring the Functionality of Mesh-to-Mesh Value Comparison in Pair-Matching and Its Application to Fragmentary Remains -- Forensic Facial Comparison: Current Status, Limitations, and Future Directions -- Forensic Anthropology as a Discipline -- Ancestry Studies in Forensic Anthropology: Back on the Frontier of Racism -- Bone Diagenesis in Short Timescales: Insights from an Exploratory Proteomic Analysis.