Researchers are assessing the level of sexual dimorphism in the zygomatic bone using three-dimensional geometric morphometrics (3D GM), which relies on landmarks to capture shape variables.
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Aquatic forensics brings together knowledge from underwater archaeology, anthropology, marine biology and marine science. But it is still in its infancy.
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USF forensic anthropologists presented their findings of a two-year study commissioned by the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners to identify the locations of unmarked cemeteries on county property.
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The analysis of this re-discovered sculpture in Dresden, Germany, may help capture details of the working methods of great artists of the past, including details not recorded about their artistic approaches.
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American Indians are disproportionately affected by the crisis of unidentified decedents; there are more than 4.5 times more missing American Indians reported than human remains that have been found and estimated to be American Indians.
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In 2018, the Marana Police Department re-opened the investigation to try different and new investigative techniques in an attempt to identify John Doe #44.
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The aim of this research was precisely to come up with a method capable of determining the relatively accurate post-mortem interval in human remains by using non-destructive measurements.
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In a new project, researchers from a number of different fields are working in unison on the SciTech campus to see if the honey produced by bees after feeding on flowers can help investigators better locate missing persons.
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Development of blowflies on a body is a standard forensic measure of time since death, but temperature variations can alter that development and mislead investigators.
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Recently, new avenues of identification for "Ina Jane Doe," have been pursued, including anthropological re-analysis.
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