In early 2007, Stevens transported the remains to the Biological Anthropology Laboratory at the University of South Carolina for further study. He conducted extensive research over a period of years to determine their origin
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Philadelphia’s top health official was compelled to resign Thursday after the city’s mayor learned partial human remains from the 1985 bombing of the headquarters of a Black organization had been cremated and disposed of without notifying family members.
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Following code is the minimum; it technically is an acceptable minimum, but it may not be a culturally relevant, fashionable, or decedent- and next of kin-focused minimum.
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This case exposes several issues within the discipline of anthropology, namely systems of structural racism as well as the need to appreciate qualifications and ethical practice in forensic anthropology.
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While transgender and gender-diverse individuals have historically been disproportionately susceptible to violence and homicides, the recent rise in visibility of ongoing trans-focused violence has highlighted how the medical-legal community, in general and forensic anthropology, in particular, have largely neglected trans and gender-diverse people.
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Improving postmortem interval estimation with standardized and simplified protocols could significantly impact medicolegal death investigations by providing more accurate and reliable data for determining time since death.
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Every day, the red phone rings at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Forensic Anthropology Center. On the other end, a funeral home director, a police officer, or a family member shares some version of the same message: there’s a body here for you.
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Anthropologists report they have found the oldest documented site of a mass killing in what is now Croatia. Findings from the 6,200-year-old massacre were published in PLOS ONE earlier this month.
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“Scientific objectivity.” It’s a concept as old as the Enlightenment and a mainstay of mid-20th-century approaches to science, thought to be a core tenet of forensic scientific analysis and testimony. It’s also a myth—and it’s dangerous.
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The method provides clues to the bitumen's geographic origin and, in one experiment, revealed that a mummy in a French museum could have been partially restored, likely by collectors.
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