Few previous studies have demonstrated the likelihood of using the worldwide patterns of dental morphological variation in prediction of ancestry in the context of forensic dental anthropology. This paper introduces a new quantitative method for predicting forensic racial identity of individual specimens based on dental morphological trait analysis. In this study, the inter-population variation...

Archaeological theories and methods are developed to reconstruct past human behavior from fragmentary material remains. The interrelated discipline of physical anthropology addresses questions related skeletal remains while acknowledging taphonomic parameters. benefit integrating these disciplines in forensic investigations has gained increasing acknowledgement over the last decades, but use ar...

Recent years have brought an important increase in the interest identified human osteological collections South America. Their number has been systematically growing and their sizes expanding, allowing development of field forensic anthropology, among other disciplines, this region. These are used mainly for validation international anthropology methods national local populations, as well train...

The present study was designed to describe the evolution of forensic literature in North-American journals over more than 25 years. From 1980 to 2005, the number of articles per year and the average number of authors per article have both increased almost twofold, while the relative contribution of other countries in comparison to the United States has increased from 19.2% to 61.0%. The contrib...

The specialty of forensic psychiatry is advancing in practice and in its scholarship. One task for an evolving discipline is to define and master the nature of its work. In this article we assert that the work of testifying in court is more than the sharing of specialized knowledge. It is performance. Anthropology, religious studies, political science, and psychology (among other disciplines) h...

Figure 1. In the field of forensic anthropology findings of fragmentary and commingled skeletal remains are not uncommon. (Photo reproduced from !!) complete skeletal remains are available, biological profile is possible to be estimated and not determined. In the field of forensic investigation, fragmentary skeletal human remains demand special approach to be handled. Incompleteness of material...

Human hair has played a significant role in forensic anthropology for decades. The morphological characteristics of human hair have long been utilized for personal identification in forensic investigations. With the development of better analytical techniques, hairs samples are also being used to understand and solve instances of poisoning, drug and substance abuse. This communication presents ...

A growing interest toward automatic, computer-based tools has been spreading among forensic scientists and anthropologists wishing to extend the armamentarium of traditional statistical analysis and classification techniques. The combination of multiple paradigms is often required in order to fit the difficult, real-world scenarios involved in the area. The paper presents a comparison of combin...