Recent Advances in Forensic Anthropological Methods and Research / / Ann H. Ross, Eugénia Cunha.

• VerfasserIn: Ross, Ann H.,; Cunha, Eugénia,
• TeilnehmendeR: 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...

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.