
The main goals in any forensic skeletal analysis are to answer who is the person represented (individualization), how that person died (trauma/pathology) and when that person died (the postmortem interval or PMI). The analyses necessary to generate the biological profile include...

This new edition is a go-to reference on forensic taphonomy-the actual modifications to an individual bone or assemblage of bones. Expert contributors classify such alterations to remains, explaining their significance, demonstrating how to differentially diagnose among them...