Research Catalog

Title

Bone voyage / a journey in forensic anthropology / Stanley Rhine.

Author

Rhine, Stanley.

Publication

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1998.

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Details

Description

xxi, 268 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.

Summary

Drawing on cases he worked for the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator, Rhine demonstrates how unidentified skeletal remains indicate race, sex, age, height, and ultimately identity and how the specialist decodes skeletal anomalies to establish cause of death.

Subject

• Forensic anthropology
• Forensic Anthropology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-263) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Premature funeral : Bones and fire -- Picking up the pieces : Search, discovery, and recovery of bodies -- Skeleton in the closet : The flow of information to and from the forensic anthropologist -- Listening to the bones : Determination of age, sex, stature, race, and other things -- End of the world : Decomposed bodies, autopsies, and case reports -- Forensic anthropology : A short history -- To Mexico ... the long way : The intricacies of identification -- Medicolegal investigation : The New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator -- Nefarious application of force to the skeleton : Sharp and blunt force skeletal trauma -- Plethora of bodies : Forensic anthropology in mass disasters.

ISBN

• 082631967X (cloth)
• 0826319688 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^98023459^

OCLC

39001267

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library