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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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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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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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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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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The analysis includes the earliest DNA extracted from ancient human remains in Africa and the oldest from anywhere in the tropics.
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Metabolomic analysis of postmortem blood reveals biomarkers that can be used to diagnose diabetes mellitus, enabling accurate forensic diagnosis.
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The Spanish archeologist who helped piece together possibly the earliest case of murder in human history has published another study that demonstrates evidence of nine additional murders in the same location.
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At the Medical Examiner’s Office, the Sussex County Medical Examiner and a New Jersey State Police Anthropologist performed an examination and collected relevant evidence.
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Researchers have proposed a method of assigned sex estimation that is “population-inclusive,” or one that did not inherently rely on any estimation of ancestry by using 3D volume-rendered computed tomography scans of ancestry skulls to estimate assigned sex at birth.
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The Avars did not leave written records about their history and these first genome-wide data provide robust clues about their origins.
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Doro and his team worked to validate a method based on electrical resistivity, a measure of how strongly a material opposes the flow of electric current, in combination with ground-penetrating radar.
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When Kendall Gehring was in eighth grade, she went on a school field trip to Historic Jamestowne, where she was fascinated to learn about the remains of Jane, a 14-year-old girl who died between 1609 and 1610 and whose bones held evidence of cannibalism.
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This approach will allow a team to pinpoint the exact number of individuals in a comingled mass grave and sort them out individually based on bone metabolism.
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