“Advances in Forensic Anthropology” – Creation of skeletal databases for forensic anthropology research and casework

Forensic anthropology casework-essential methodological considerations in stature estimation.

The examination of skeletal remains is a challenge to the medical examiner's/coroner's office and the forensic anthropologist conducting the investigation. One of the objectives of the medico-legal investigation is to estimate stature or height from various skeletal remains and body parts brought for examination. Various skeletal remains and body parts bear a positive and linear correlation wit...

Anthropology in a Forensic Context

faculty of psychology and social sciences group of anthropology master thesis in major of anthropology

چکیده پایان نامه (شامل خلاصه، اهداف، روش های اجرا و نتایج به دست آمده): کار جمع آوری گو یش های محلی در سال های اخیر شتاب امیدوار کننده ای به خود گرفته است. شاید از بارزترین اهداف جمع آوری گویش های مختلف، ثبت و ضبط آن، جلوگیری از نابودی و مهمتر از همه حل مشکلات دستوری زبان رسمی باشد. دقت در فرآیند های زبانی گویش های محلی نوع ارتباط مردم نواحی مختلف با پیرامون نشان را به ما نشان خواهد داد. از س...

Molecular Anthropology: Population and Forensic Genetic Applications

Molecular anthropology the study of human genetic polymorphisms is fast and ever-growing branch of anthropology that holds a great promise for both past and future. Indian subcontinent with its remarkable environmental, geographical, morphological, genetic, cultural and linguistic diversity provides immense promise for anthropological investigations to address origins of its people, population ...

Forensic Anthropology : Current Tools , Future Concepts

Traditionally, methodology within forensic anthropology has involved very basic techniques of measurement, observation and interpretation. Rooted in the academic fields of anatomy and physical anthropology, forensic anthropology has grown to address problems of recovery, determination of species, estimation of age at death, sex, ancestry, stature, postmortem interval, and the evaluation of evid...