The most reliable methods of determining sex from skeletal remains are based on examination of the hip bone. However, hip bone specimens may be incomplete or fragmented. The purpose of this study was to identify the best-preserved regions of the hip bone with the greatest diagnostic value for sex determination. The Bruzek method of visual sex determination using 11 anatomic hip bone features wa...

Small asteroids are often considered to be rubble-pile objects, and such may the most likely type of Near Earth Objects (NEOs) pose a threat Earth. However, impact cratering on bodies is complex not yet understood. We perform three low-velocity (? 400 m/s) experiments in granular targets with without projectile-size boulders. conducted SPH simulations that closely reproduced experiments. Our re...

We report partial melting of an ultrahigh pressure eclogite in the Mesozoic Sulu orogen, China. Eclogitic migmatite shows successive stages of initial intragranular and grain boundary melt droplets, which grow into a three-dimensional interconnected intergranular network, then segregate and accumulate in pressure shadow areas and then merge to form melt channels and dikes that transport magma t...

Tabular dunites in the Josephine peridotite of southwestern Oregon represent conduits for melt extraction from the upper mantle. The amount of melt trapped within these channels during cooling and exhumation of the peridotite massif was calculated using a mass-balance approach. These calculations suggest that no more than 0·1^0·2 vol. % melt could have been trapped within these dunites after cr...

The Medici Project is a paleopathological and historico-medical research, based on the exhumation of corpses of the Medici Family buried in the Medici Chapels (Florence, San Lorenzo). The scientific research carried out on these remains permits us to reconstruct habits and causes of death of members of this famous family of Italian Renaissance. The comparison between the literary sources and th...

The Arkadelphia Formation—Midway Group (Maastrichtian—Paleocene) contact near Malvern, Arkansas preserves a K-Pg boundary assemblage of turtle species consisting of skull, shell, and non-shell postcranial skeletal elements. The Malvern turtles are preserved within a coquina lag deposit that comprises the basalmost Midway Group and also contains an abundance of other reptiles, as well as chondri...

Thirty years ago, a young girl was found decapitated. Her identity remains unknown, and neither her head nor her killer have been found. Until recently, the location of her grave was lost, preventing any efforts to identify her using modern forensic techniques. This paper presents a case study on the use of burial photos to accurately and precisely determine the location of the lost grave. We h...

Abstract. Large parts of central Europe experienced exhumation in Late Cretaceous to Paleogene time. Previous studies mainly focused on thrusted basement uplifts unravel the magnitude, processes and timing exhumation. This study provides, for first time, a comprehensive thermochronological dataset from mostly Permo-Triassic strata exposed adjacent between Germany, comprising an area at least so...