A Companion to Forensic Anthropology -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- About This Book -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Introduction and Brief History of Forensic Anthropology -- 1 Forensic Anthropology: Embracing the New Paradigm -- Part II Recovery of Human Remains from Outdoor Contexts -- Introduction to Part II -- 2 Documenting Context at the Outdoor Crime Scene: Why Bother? -- 3 Determining the Forensic Significance of Skeletal Remains -- 4 The Application of Ground-Penetrating Radar for Forensic Grave Detection -- 5 Crime Scene Perspective: Collecting Evidence in the Context of the Criminal Incident -- 6 The Role of Forensic Anthropology in the Recovery and Interpretation of the Fatal-Fire Victim -- 7 Forensic Anthropology at the Mass Fatality Incident (Commercial Airliner) Crash Scene -- 8 Mass Graves and Human Rights: Latest Developments, Methods, and Lessons Learned -- 9 Archaeology, Mass Graves, and Resolving Commingling Issues through Spatial Analysis -- Part III Developments in Forensic Osteology -- Introduction to Part III -- 10 Developments in Forensic Anthropology: Age-at-Death Estimation -- 11 Skeletal Age Estimation: Where We Are and Where We Should Go -- 12 Adult Sex Determination: Methods and Application -- 13 Sexual Dimorphism: Interpreting Sex Markers -- 14 Morphoscopic Traits and the Assessment of Ancestry -- 15 Fordisc 3 and Statistical Methods for Estimating Sex and Ancestry -- 16 Estimating Stature -- Part IV Developments in Human Skeletal Trauma Analysis -- Introduction to Part IV -- 17 Interpreting Traumatic Injury to Bone in Medicolegal Investigations -- 18 The Biomechanics of Gunshot Trauma to Bone: Research Considerations within the Present Judicial Climate -- 19 Developments in Skeletal Trauma: Blunt-Force Trauma -- Part V Advances in Human Identification.

Introduction to Part V -- 20 Advances in the Anthropological Analysis of Cremated Remains -- 21 Human Identification Using Skull-Photo Superimposition and Forensic Image Comparison -- 22 DNA Analysis and the Classic Goal of Forensic Anthropology -- 23 DNA Identification and Forensic Anthropology: Developments in DNA Collection, Analysis, and Technology -- Part VI Forensic Taphonomy -- Introduction to Part VI -- 24 Current Research in Forensic Taphonomy -- 25 The Use of Taphonomy in Forensic Anthropology: Past Trends and Future Prospects -- Part VII Forensic Anthropology Beyond Academia -- Introduction to Part VII -- 26 Forensic Anthropologists in Medical Examiner's and Coroner's Offices: A History -- 27 Forensic Anthropology at the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner -- 28 The Many Hats of a Recovery Leader: Perspectives on Planning and Executing Worldwide Forensic Investigations and Recoveries at the JPAC Central Identification Laboratory -- Part VIII Forensic Anthropology Outside North America -- Introduction to Part VIII -- 29 European Perspectives and the Role of the Forensic Archaeologist in the UK -- 30 The Establishment and Advancement of Forensic Anthropology in South Africa -- 31 The Application of Forensic Anthropology to the Investigation of Cases of Political Violence -- Part IX Ethics, Overview, and the Future of Forensic Anthropology -- Introduction to Part IX -- 32 The Pervasiveness of Daubert -- 33 Ethics in Forensic Anthropology -- 34 An "Outsider" Look at Forensic Anthropology -- Index.