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- Título
- Manual of Forensic Taphonomy
- Editorial
- CRC Press
- Año de publicación
- 2013
- Estado
- Very Good
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 10
- 1439878412
- ISBN 13
- 9781439878415
Forensic taphonomy is the study of the postmortem changes to human remains, focusing largely on environmental effects―including decomposition in soil and water and interaction with plants, insects, and other animals. While other books have focused on subsets such as forensic botany and entomology, Manual of Forensic Taphonomy is the first update of the entire domain in more than ten years and the first book to consider distinguishing among multiple types of taphonomic changes.
Edited by two of the most distinguished experts in the field, this volume examines taphonomic alterations to bone and related taphonomic processes common to cases of forensic interest. Specific chapters address a range of issues related to:
- Varying burial environments
- Animal scavenging and transport
- Fluvial and human transport
- Cultural modifications
- Marine environments
- Subaerial weathering
- Thermal alteration
- Recovery methods used in collecting the remains
The book discusses inherent variations in survivability of different bones, degradation of DNA in different environments, and organisms involved in soft-tissue decomposition which result in skeletonization. It also describes microscopic alterations, color changes, macroscopic physical damage of multiple types, and bone loss through dispersal away from the location of initial body deposition. The authors present methods that can be employed to determine the timing of taphonomic damage (perimortem vs. postmortem) as well as checklists for the collection of microscopic and macroscopic taphonomic data.
The ability to recognize taphonomic characteristics and discriminate between osseous alterations with similar appearances but dissimilar origins is essential to those engaged in the analysis of skeletal remains. This volume is an ideal guide for students and non-specialists as well as a reference manual for professionals.
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James T. Pokines, Ph.D., D.-A.B.F.A., is an assistant professor in the Forensic Anthropology Program in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Boston University School of Medicine. Prior to this, he served for 12 years at the Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii as a forensic anthropologist and forensic archaeologist. Dr. Pokines received his B.A. in anthropology and archaeology from Cornell University, his M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago, and his A.B.F.A. board certification in forensic anthropology. His research includes taphonomy, vertebrate osteology, zooarchaeology, and paleoecology, and he has ongoing osteological research projects in the Bolivian and Peruvian Andes; Tell Timai in the Nile Delta, Egypt; and the Paleolithic of northern Jordan. He is also the Forensic Anthropologist for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Boston.
Steven A. Symes, PhD., D.-A.B.F.A., is an associate professor in the Applied Forensic Sciences and Anthropology Departments at Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pennsylvania. Symes is a US forensic anthropologist best known for his expertise in interpreting trauma to bone and a leading authority on saw and knife mark analysis. With 30 years experience, he has assisted federal, state, local, and non-US authorities in the identification, analysis, and documentation of those suspicioned to be victims of trauma.
A sought-after consultant in criminal cases, Dr. Symes has been qualified as an expert for both the prosecution and defense, testifying specifically on forensic tool mark and fracture pattern interpretation in bone, as well as blunt force, ballistic, burned and healing trauma in bone. Because of his specialty in criminal dismemberment and mutilation, he has worked a number of serial homicides, and has provided analysis of cut marks in nearly 200 dismemberment cases and roughly 400 knife wound cases.
Before coming to Mercyhurst University, Dr. Symes spent 16 years as forensic anthropologist for the medical examiner’s office at the Regional Forensic Center for Shelby County, Tennessee. He has been involved with hands-on forensic anthropology since 1979, when he became the graduate assistant to Dr. William M. Bass, founder of the Anthropological Research Center at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. In addition, he has authored more than 50 publications and delivered over 100 papers, lectures and workshops on a variety of forensic anthropology topics.
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