How frequent was violence in prehistoric human societies? One way to measure this is to look for trauma in prehistoric human remains.
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Mexican authorities have arrested a retired general and three other members of the army for alleged connection to the disappearance of 43 students in southern Mexico in 2014.
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National Missing and Unidentified Persons Day may not be for another 5 months, but that isn’t stopping the Richland County Coroner’s Office (S.C.) and Columbia Police Department from getting a head start.
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Bodies of murder victims are found in suitcases with astonishing regularity. But they present a particular challenge for police investigating the crime.
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Using aDNA, archaeologists discovered that an ancient Greek leader known today as the Griffin Warrior likely grew up around the seaside city he would one day rule.
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Previous recent conflicts that resulted in war crime allegations and investigations offer context for understanding the challenges in independently investigating them.
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Located between and above your eyebrows, the frontal sinuses develop in shapes that are as unique to each person as a fingerprint. Since 1925, they’ve been used by forensic anthropologists to help identify human remains.
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Another body has surfaced at Lake Mead — this time in a swimming area where water levels have dropped as the Colorado River reservoir behind Hoover Dam recedes because of drought and climate change.
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The U.S. medicolegal death investigation system is currently pushed to the brink due to the limited number of trained forensic professionals, and the inadequate resources to pay staff and produce analytical results.
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Accurate identification is important because more than 460,000 children are reported missing in the United States each year.
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