Front Cover -- Dedication -- Research Methods in Human Skeletal Biology -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Part I Introduction to Research in Skeletal Biology -- Chapter 1 - Introduction to Skeletal Biology -- GOALS OF THIS TEXTBOOK -- WHY STUDY THE HUMAN SKELETON? -- A CONCISE (AND ABRIDGED) OVERVIEW AND HISTORY OF THEMES IN PHYSICAL/BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY RELEVANT TO HUMAN SKELETAL BIOLOGY -- FORMAT OF THIS BOOK -- HOW TO USE THIS BOOK -- FINAL THOUGHTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 - Application of the Scientific Method to Skeletal Biology -- INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE -- THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD -- DEVELOPING A RESEARCH QUESTION: HOW TO THINK OF AND DEVELOP IDEAS -- PROJECT LOGISTICS -- CASE STUDY: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A DISSERTATION TOPIC -- FINAL THOUGHTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- RECOMMENDED READING -- Part II Research on Aspects of the Biological Profile -- Chapter 3 - Age-at-Death Estimation -- INTRODUCTION -- SUBADULT AGE-AT-DEATH ESTIMATION -- STATISTICS AND ADULT AGE-AT-DEATH ESTIMATION -- ADULT AGE-AT-DEATH ESTIMATION -- CASE STUDY: BAYESIAN THEORY APPLIED TO THE MULTIFACTORIAL AGE INDICATOR PROBLEM -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 - Sex Estimation and Assessment -- INTRODUCTION -- SEX ASSESSMENT VERSUS SEX ESTIMATION -- SEXUAL DIMORPHISM: INTRINSIC VERSUS EXTRINSIC FACTORS -- SEX ASSESSMENT -- METRIC SEX ESTIMATION -- PROBLEMATIC AREAS OF SEX ESTIMATION -- CASE STUDY: DEVELOPING POPULATION-SPECIFIC SEXING STANDARDS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 - Ancestry Estimation -- INTRODUCTION -- (BRIEF) HISTORY OF RACE CONCEPT -- HRDLIČKA, HOOTON, AND BOAS: THREE KEY FIGURES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DISCIPLINE -- SCIENTIFIC RACISM -- MODERN THOUGHT ABOUT ANCESTRY -- ANCESTRY AND FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY -- STATISTICAL APPROACHES.

CASE STUDY: ASSESSING ANCESTRY FOR AN UNKNOWN -- FINAL THOUGHTS: THE FUTURE OF RESEARCH IN ANCESTRY ESTIMATION AND HUMAN VARIATION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- RECOMMENDED ADDITIONAL READINGS AND VIEWINGS -- Chapter 6 - Stature Estimation -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODS IN STATURE ESTIMATION: THEN AND NOW -- PROBLEMS WITH STATURE ESTIMATION -- CASE STUDIES: STATURE ESTIMATION -- FUTURE RESEARCH IN STATURE ESTIMATION -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 - Paleopathology -- INTRODUCTION -- SKELETAL STRESS MARKERS OF BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL VALUE -- IDENTIFYING A PATHOLOGY -- HOW TO COLLECT PATHOLOGICAL DATA -- THE PHOTO KIT AND PHOTOGRAPHS/OTHER IMAGES -- CHOOSING A COLLECTION: NOT IN A VACUUM -- PALEOPATHOLOGICAL INFORMATION AS A PROBLEM-SOLVING TOOL -- CONCLUSION: PALEOPATHOLOGY AS AN INVESTIGATIVE TOOL -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8 - Investigation of Skeletal Trauma -- INTRODUCTION -- BASIC CONCEPTS IN BONE TRAUMA -- TYPES OF TRAUMA IN THE HUMAN SKELETON -- NEW THINKING: SKELETAL TRAUMA AS A CONTINUUM -- SKELETAL TRAUMA AS A COMPONENT OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH -- CASE-BASED ANALYSIS -- CASE STUDY: INVESTIGATION OF FRACTURE PATTERNS IN CHILD ABUSE USING A CASE-BASED APPROACH -- EXPERIMENTAL SKELETAL TRAUMA RESEARCH -- CASE STUDY: EXPERIMENTAL IMPACT BIOMECHANICS RESEARCH INTO CRANIAL BASE FRACTURES -- FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN SKELETAL TRAUMA RESEARCH -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 - Taphonomy -- INTRODUCTION -- THE TAPHONOMIC RESEARCH PERSPECTIVE -- METHODOLOGY IN TAPHONOMIC RESEARCH -- ACTUALISTIC METHODOLOGY: NATURAL AND EXPERIMENTAL -- TAPHONOMY AND SKELETAL BIOLOGY: TWO CASE STUDIES -- CASE STUDY: FORENSIC TAPHONOMY -- CASE STUDY: ARCHAEOLOGICAL TAPHONOMY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10 - Dental Anthropology -- INTRODUCTION -- TEETH: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION -- TOOTH SIZE AND SHAPE -- TOOTH DEVELOPMENT AND WEAR.

VISUALIZING TOOTH GROWTH -- DENTAL PATHOLOGY -- TEETH AND GENETIC MATERIAL -- ISOTOPE ANALYSIS -- MICROWEAR -- CASE STUDY: THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS -- MOVING FORWARD … -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11 - Demography -- INTRODUCTION -- STARTING DATA FOR DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF SKELETAL SAMPLES -- ESTIMATION OF SEX AND OF THE SEX RATIO -- ESTIMATION OF AGE AND OF THE AGE-AT-DEATH STRUCTURE -- WHAT SEX RATIOS AND AGE-AT-DEATH STRUCTURES CAN TELL US ABOUT PAST POPULATIONS -- WHAT ROLE CAN SEX RATIOS AND AGE-AT-DEATH STRUCTURES PLAY IN FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY? -- CONCLUSION: WRAPPING IT UP -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 12 - Geometric Morphometrics -- INTRODUCTION -- TRADITIONAL MORPHOMETRICS -- GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS -- GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRIC METHODS -- CURRENT APPLICATIONS OF GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS IN SKELETAL BIOLOGY -- CONCLUSION AND ADDITIONAL RESOURCES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Part III Technological Advances -- Chapter 13 - Bone and Dental Histology -- INTRODUCTION -- BONE HISTOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY -- BASIC CONCEPTS IN DENTAL HISTOLOGY -- CASE STUDY OF DENTAL HISTOLOGY IN FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY: THE PROBLEM OF PINK TEETH2THIS RESEARCH WAS CONDUCTED AT THE UNIVE ... -- SO YOU'RE INTERESTED IN DENTAL HISTOLOGY -- HISTOLOGICAL METHODS -- HISTOLOGICAL ANALYSES -- CASE STUDIES: BONE HISTOLOGY -- SO YOU'RE INTERESTED IN BONE HISTOLOGY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 14 - Functional Morphology and Medical Imaging -- INTRODUCTION -- BASIC BONE BIOLOGY -- BASIC BONE BIOMECHANICS -- FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY -- CROSS-SECTIONAL GEOMETRIC SHAPE ANALYSIS -- MEDICAL IMAGING -- CASE STUDY: FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY, CT, AND BONE DENSITY IN ACTION -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 15 - Isotopes -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT QUESTIONS CAN BE ANSWERED WITH STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSIS? -- WHAT ARE ISOTOPES?.

RESEARCH DESIGN OF STABLE ISOTOPE PROJECTS -- CASE STUDY: ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH QUESTIONS WITH STABLE ISOTOPE DATA -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 16 - Molecular Methods -- INTRODUCTION -- GENETICS AND GENOMICS -- GENETICS IN ANTHROPOLOGY -- INCORPORATING GENETICS INTO ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH: WHAT DO I NEED TO KNOW? -- DEGRADED DNA -- CASE STUDY: SETTING UP A DEGRADED DNA ANALYSIS -- CASE STUDY: THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF DNA RESEARCH IN PRACTICE -- APPLICATION OF DNA ANALYSIS TO LONG-STANDING ANTHROPOLOGICAL INQUIRIES INTO HUMAN VARIATION, ITS PATTERN, AND ITS EXPLANATION -- FUTURE RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Part IV Completing and Cultivating the Scientific Process -- Chapter 17 - Library Research, Presenting, and Publishing -- INTRODUCTION -- LIBRARY AND DATABASE RESEARCH -- SEARCHING AND OBTAINING OUTSIDE SOURCES OF FUNDING -- GIVING A PRESENTATION -- PUBLISHING -- CASE STUDY: THE FIRST RIB AND THE PHOTOGRAPHS -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- SUGGESTED READING -- Chapter 18 - Future Research Considerations in Human Skeletal Biology -- RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DEVELOPING YOUR APTITUDE AS A SCHOLAR -- TRENDS IN HUMAN SKELETAL BIOLOGY -- IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS -- VISION TOWARDS THE FUTURE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Index.