Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology: Moving Forward
Soren Blau and Douglas H. Ubelaker

Part I: History of the Disciplines
Chapter 2: Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology in the United Kingdom: Are We Nearly There Yet?
Gaile McKinnon and Karl Harrison
Chapter 3: Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology: Perspectives from Italy
Cristina Cattaneo, Daniele Gibeli, and Dominic Salsarola
Chapter 4: Forensic Anthropology: Perspectives from France
Tania Delabarde and Eric Baccino
Chapter 5: A History of Forensic Anthropology in Spain
José Prieto
Chapter 6: The Application of Forensic Anthropology to the Investigation of Cases of Political Violence: Perspectives from South America
Luis Fondebrider
Chapter 7: The Origin and Development of Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology in Colombia
Angélica Guzmán and César Sanabria Medina
Chapter 8: Historical Development of Forensic Anthropology: Perspectives from the United States
Douglas H. Ubelaker
Chapter 9: Forensic Anthropology: Canadian Content and Contributions
Mark Skinner and Kristina Bowie
Chapter 10: The Development and Current State of Forensic Anthropology: An Australian Perspective
Denise Donlon
Chapter 11: Historical Perspectives of Forensic Anthropology in Indonesia
Etty Indriati
Chapter 12: Forensic Anthropology as Practiced in South Africa
Maryna Steyn, Ericka N. L’Abbé, and Jolandie Myburgh

Part II: Forensic Archaeology
Chapter 13: The Search and Detection of Human Remains
Thomas D. Holland and Samuel V. Connell
Chapter 14: Excavation and Recovery in Forensic Archaeological Investigations
Paul N. Cheetham and Ian Hanson

Part III: Forensic Anthropology
Chapter 15: Differentiating Human from Non-Human Skeletal Remains
Dawn M. Mulhern
Chapter 16: Dating of Anthropological Skeletal Remains of Forensic Interest
Shari Forbes and Kimberley Nugent
Chapter 17: Analysis of Commingled Human Remains
John Byrd and Bradley J. Adams
Chapter 18: The Assessment of Ancestry and the Concept of Race
Norman J. Sauer, Jane C. Wankmiller, and Joseph T. Hefner
Chapter 19: Anthropological Estimation of Sex
Samantha K. Rowbotham
Chapter 20: Skeletal Age Estimation
Tracy L. Rogers
Chapter 21: Histological Age Estimation
Christian M. Crowder, Jarred T. Heinrich, and Victoria M. Dominguez
Chapter 22: Stature Estimation
P. Willey
Chapter 23: Antemortem Trauma
Eugénia Cunha and Joāo Pinheiro
Chapter 24: Perimortem Trauma
Louise Loe
Chapter 25: Forensic Taphonomy
Stephen P. Nawrocki
Chapter 26: Burned Human Remains
Tim Thompson and Priscilla F. Ulguim
Chapter 27: Craniofacial Identification: Techniques of Facial Approximation and Craniofacial Superimposition
Carl N. Stephan and Peter Claes
Chapter 28: Biomolecular Applications
Lori Baker
Chapter 29: Forensic Odontology
John Gerald Clement

Part IV: The Crime and Disaster Scene: Case Studies in Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology
Chapter 30: Investigative and Legal Aspects of a U.S. Federal Death Penalty Case
Dawnie Wolfe Steadman, William Basler, Michael J. Hochrein, Dennis F. Klein, and Julia C. Goodin
Chapter 31: Domestic Homicide Investigations in the United Kingdom
John Hunter
Chapter 32: Forensic Anthropology in Disaster Response
Paul S. Sledzik and Amy Z. Mundorff
Chapter 33: Medico-legal Investigation of Atrocities Committed during the Solomon Islands “Ethnic Tensions”
Melanie Archer and Malcolm J. Dodd
Chapter 34: Disaster Anthropology: The 2004 Asian Tsunami
Sue Black
Chapter 35: The Role of the Anthropologist in Disaster Victim Identification: Case studies from the 2002 and 2004 terrorist attacks in Bali, Indonesia
Alanah M. Buck and Christopher A. Briggs
Chapter 36: Dealing with Human Remains from Recent Conflict: Mass Grave Excavations and Human Identification in a Sensitive Political Context
Marija Djurić
Chapter 37: Forensic Investigations in Guatemala: The Continuing Search for Truth, Justice, and the Missing Two Decades after the Peace Accords
Caroline Barker, Ambika Flavel, and Claudia Rivera Fernández
Chapter 38: Continuing Challenges for Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology in Iraq
Derek Congram, Jon Sterenberg, and Oran Finnegan
Chapter 39: Fromelles: Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology in Identification
Margaret Cox, Louise Loe, and Peter Jones

Part V: The Professional Forensic Archaeologist and the Forensic Anthropologist
Chapter 40: More Than Just Bare Bones: Ethical Considerations for Forensic Anthropologists
Soren Blau
Chapter 41: How to Do Forensic Anthropology under the Auspices of the United Nations and Other Large Organizations
Richard Wright and Ian Hanson
Chapter 42: Contribution of Quantitative Methods in Forensic Anthropology: A New Era
Ann H. Ross and Erin H. Kimmerle
Chapter 43: The Expert Witness and the Court of Law
Maciej Henneberg
Chapter 44: Legal Aspects of Identification
David Ranson
Chapter 45: The International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) and the Application of Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology to Identifying the Missing
Ian Hanson, Matthew Holliday, Kevin Sullivan, Kathryne Bomberger, and Thomas J. Parsons

Chapter 46: Conclusion: International Perspectives on Issues in Forensic Anthropology
Soren Blau and Douglas H. Ubelaker

About the Author

Soren Blau is the Senior Forensic Anthropologist at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine. She is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Department of Forensic Medicine at Monash University, a Founding Fellow Faculty of Science at The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia, and a recipient of a Churchill Fellowship. Blau undertakes forensic anthropology casework, including Disaster Victim Identification, and she has participated in the recovery and analysis of human remains from archaeological and forensic contexts in numerous countries, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guam, Indonesia, Israel, the Solomon Islands, East Timor, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and Uzbekistan. Blau has worked as a consultant for the International Criminal Court and non-government organizations, and she has conducted training courses for forensic practitioners and related stakeholders.


Douglas Ubelaker is a curator and senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. Since 1978, he has served as a consultant in forensic anthropology, reporting on more than 900 cases and testifying in numerous legal proceedings. He is a lecturer with the departments of anatomy and anthropology at The George Washington University, as well as an adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University. Ubelaker has published extensively in the general field of human skeletal biology with an emphasis on forensic applications and has served on the editorial boards of numerous leading scientific publications. Since 1987, he has been a Fellow in the Physical Anthropology Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and he served as president of the Academy in 2011-2012. Ubelaker has received numerous honors from both American and international organizations.

Reviews

"… [T]his volume is indeed comprehensive. The Editors should be congratulated on an excellent book, which should be on the bookshelf of any serious practitioner and library. The Editors state that the ‘methodologies summarized in this volume are state of the art but hardly the last word.’ However, this book should remain highly relevant for many years to come. Highly recommended!"" - James Robertson, Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, review of the first edition"This superb volume brings together contributions from practicing professionals in Australia, Canada, France, Great Britain, Guatemala, Indonesia, Italy, Spain, and the United States. … For those individuals considering specializing in forensic anthropology, or applying their archaeological skills in the search, documentation, and recovery of human remains and evidence derived from non-archaeological contexts, this book inserts a large dose of reality into what it means to be an anthropologist first and a forensic anthropologist second." - Leslie E. Eisenberg, Journal of Forensic Sciences, review of the first edition