BACKGROUND Establishing personal identity is one of the main concerns in forensic investigations. In forensic anthropology, estimation of height from head circumference has a significant role in establishing personal identity. OBJECTIVE The objective of the present study was an attempt to understand the relationship between height and head circumference of an individual and to derive regressi...

Weathering or long-term burial may cause profound morphological and histological changes in hair, which may affect the results of forensic and archaeological investigations. We therefore used ultramicroscopic techniques to assay the changes in weathering hair shafts caused by burial for up to 25 years. We found that the middle portion of hair shafts from living individuals shows the expected hi...

In all animals, the head forms the most complex structure of the body. This is especially important in humans: not only the head houses the central nervous system, the eyes and inner ear structures, and the first part of the digestive and respiratory apparatuses, but it is characterized by the face. The face is probably the most important source of communication and interaction with the environ...

Background: Skeletal trauma analysis is crucial in the area of forensic anthropology for locating and analyzingwounds human remains. For evaluation recording bone injuries, a number techniques methodshave been developed over years, including ocular examination cutting-edge imaging modalities. In orderto determine approaches used diagnosing trauma, goal this systematic review to criticallystudy ...

The Spanish Association of Anthropology and Forensic Odontology, organized its XII Conference through the University Granada, under topic “Identification at Border”. Professionals from different disciplines, as well members social groups people who have crossed border discussed complex forensic medical, judicial, humanitarian problem involved in large number died sea, arrive our coasts are neve...

This article provides an overview of the development of forensic psychiatry in the Netherlands from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. The first part addresses the ways forensic psychiatry established itself in the period 1870-1925 and focuses on its interrelatedness with forensic practice, psychiatry's professionalization, the role of the government, the influence of the so...

Estimation of age-at-death for skeletonised forensic remains is one of the most significant problems in forensic anthropology. The majority of existing morphological and histological techniques are highly inaccurate, and show a bias towards underestimating the age of older individuals. One technique which has been successful in forensic age estimation is amino acid racemization in dentine. Howe...