Socio-political context A detailed examination of the socio-political context of the development and expansion of forensic anthropology and archaeology is outside the aim of this paper. For a more detailed consideration of this subject see Cox [I]. That paper considers why so many UK-based anthropologists and archaeologists seek to extend the traditional parameters of their subject beyond the a...

On Dec.12, 1985, a military charter DC-8 crashed shortly after takeoff at Gander, Nfld., Canada. All 256 aboard were killed, making this the deadliest U.S. military aircraft accident in history. The investigation team (consisting of forensic pathologists, odontologists, radiologists, anthropologists, graves registration personnel, and systems engineers) succeeded in identifying the remains of a...

Abstract This paper presents the ongoing development of forensic anthropology in Sweden. We discuss background discipline, its application, as well current and potential Swedish practice. Collaboration with osteoarchaeologists skeletal cases has a long tradition Analyses remains are performed ad-hoc, contrast to analyses fleshed human remains. While several law enforcement employees educated an...

Abstract This comment considers the applicability of Rose’s model forensic social anthropology to a range legal contexts, in particular immigration and asylum appeals United Kingdom.

Investigative authorities use forensic anthropology to examine human skeletal remains in order identify unidentified remnants. Anthropology alone is the study of man, but also includes culture, language, and physical humans. Forensic used help with recovery interpret trauma. Asian, African, European people, as well living dead, are all interest anthropologists. Anthropologists fascinated a wide...

Forensics and forensic science are highly popular terms nowadays thanks to famous TV series and films. Most people, inspired by these series, normally associate these terms to crime scene investigation (CSI), ocular inspection and evidence recovery. However, forensics involves much more than CSI, including a vast number of sciences, disciplines and studies such as forensic genetics, chemistry, ...

Classification of gender from fingerprints is one of the important steps in forensic anthropology. This forensic anthropology is used to identify the gender of a criminal in order to minimize the suspects list of search. A very few researcher have worked on gender classification using fingerprints and have gain the competitive results. In this work we are trying to fuse the fingerprint and age ...

Gender classification from fingerprints is an important step in forensic anthropology in order to identify the gender of a criminal and minimize the list of suspects search. A dataset of 10-fingerprint images for 2200 persons of different ages and gender (1100 males and 1100 females) was analyzed. Features extracted were; ridge count, ridge thickness to valley thickness ratio (RTVTR), white lin...

Different tasks in forensic anthropology require the use of three-dimensional models of forensic objects (skulls, bones, corpses, etc) captured by 3D range scanners. Since a whole object cannot be completely scanned with a single image, multiple scans from different views are needed to supply the information to construct the 3D model. Range image registration methods study the accurate integrat...