This article draws on intersecting debates archives, infrastructures, and knowledge in anthropology to analyze a “bioinformational turn” forensic science. Focusing transformations science provision England Wales apparent the history of archive, frames frictions between ways making across scientific cultures, law enforcement, legal system that aims create facts certainty, against scientists’ con...

Most anthropologists have abandoned the concept of race as a research tool and as a valid representation of human biological diversity. Yet, race identification continues to be one of the central foci of forensic anthropological casework and research. It is maintained in this paper that the successful assignment of race to a skeletal specimen is not a vindication of the race concept, but rather...

In recent years, forensic science has seen a rise in the number of multidisciplinary studies examining effect human cognition on evaluation evidence. Notably, House Lords’ report highlighted need for further investigation consequences cognitive factors decision-making processes involved evidence and interpretation. Utilizing concepts intuitive methodical decision-making, this pilot study invest...

1 Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA. 2 Department of Scientifijic Computing, Florida State Tallahassee, Florida, 3 Anthropology, University Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, *Correspondence to: Jieun Kim, 400 Dirac Science Library, FL 32306-4120 E-mail: [email protected]. KEY WORDS: forensic anthropology, quantitati...

The purpose of the present study was to create a regression equation for measuring stature using measurements obtained from long bone radiographs adult individuals in Anatolian population. In this study, maximum length six bones upper and lower limbs 167 healthy were determined radiographic images. Single multiple equations created predict stature. From these equations, standard error estimate ...