Manual of forensic taphonomy
By: edited by James T. Pokines, Steven A. Symes
Publisher: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 481
ISBN-13: 9781439878415; 9781439878439
Subjects: Forensic Anthropology; Rechtsmedizin; Methods; Crime scene searches; Postmortem Changes; Postmortem changes; Environment; Forensic taphonomy; Taphonomie
Description: "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 ... 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."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Editors; title: Contributors; title: 1. Introduction : collection of macroscopic osseous taphonomic data and the recognition of taphonomic suites of characteristics / James T. Pokines; title: 2. Microscopic destruction of bone / Miranda M.E. Jans; title: 3. Human decompositions ecology and postmortem microbiology / Franklin E. Damann and David O. Carter; title: 4. Bone density and bone attrition / R. Lee Lyman; title: 5. Effects of burial environment on osseous remains / James T. Pokines and Joan E. Baker; title: 6. Fluvial taphonomy / Thomas Evans; title: 7. Marine environmental alterations to bone / Nicholas D. Higgs and James T. Pokines; title: 8. Contemporary cultural alterations to bone / Josephine M. Paolello and Alexandra R. Klales; title: 9. Faunal dispersal, reconcentration, and gnawing damage to bone in terrestrial environments / James T. Pokines; title: 10. Deposition and dispersal of human remains as a result of criminal acts : homo sapiens sapiens as a taphonomic agent / Derk Congram; title: 11. Subaerial weathering / Christine A. Junod and James T. Pokines; title: 12. Taphonomic bone staining and color changes in forensic contexts / Tosha L. Dupras and John J. Schultz; title: 13. Taphonomy and the timing of bone fractures in trauma analysis / Steven A. Symes, Ericka N. L'Abbé, Kyra E. Stull, Marcelle LaCroix, and James T. Pokines; title: 14. Thermal alteration to bone / Steven A. Symes, Ericka N. L'Abbé, James T. Pokines, Taylor Yuzwa, Diana Messer, Amy Stromquist, and Natalie Keough; title: 15. DNA survivability in skeletal remains / Krista E. Latham and Megan E. Madonna; title: 16. Avian taphonomy / James T. Pokines and Stephanie E. Baker; title: 17. Effects of recovery methods / James T. Pokines and Joan E. Baker; title: Appendix A; title: Appendix B; title: Index.