Forensic Anthropology Laboratory Manual

Steven N. Byers has a PhD in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico (UNM), USA. Now retired, he worked for a number of years on various campuses of UNM, teaching courses in forensic anthropology, biological anthropology, and archaeology. He is currently serving on the Anthropology Consensus Body of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Standards Board, in addition to focusing on Southeastern United States bioarchaeology. Byers’ publications with Taylor & Francis include Introduction to Forensic Anthropology (in its sixth edition). Chelsey A. Juarez is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and the Director of the Fresno State Forensic Anthropology Laboratory at California State University, Fresno, USA. She is also the Director of the Central California Missing and Unidentified Deceased Persons Cold Case Initiative, a 19-county initiative to identify the deceased unidentified in rural Central California. Her research interests focus on isotopic investigations of provenance and diet, with a special focus on the Latino Diaspora and the US–Mexico border through time. In addition, she has researched and written about child abuse, intimate partner violence, and case accuracy trends in forensic anthropology. She is a first-generation Mexican-American. She holds a doctorate from the University of California Santa Cruz in Biological Anthropology, with a specialization in forensic anthropology and the Latino Diaspora.

1. Introduction, 2. Bones, Teeth, Measurements and Methods, 3. Establishing Medicolegal Significance, 4. Recovery Scene Methods, 5. Estimating Postmortem Interval, 6. Initial Treatment and Examination, 7. Attribution of Population Affinity, 8. Attribution of Sex, 9. Estimation of Age at Death, 10. Calculation of Stature, 11. Death, Trauma, and the Skeleton, 12. Projectile Trauma, 13. Blunt Trauma, 14. Sharp and Miscellaneous Trauma, 15. Antemortem Skeletal Conditions, 16. Postmortem Changes to Bone, 17. Additional Aspects of Individualization, 18. Obtaining an Identification, 19. Conclusion