Hard Evidence (2^nd Ed.) Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology

Table of Contents

Hard Evidence, 2nd ed.

Section I

Personal Identification : Theory and Applications

Chapter 1 The Marty Miller Case: Introducing Forensic Anthropology

Dawnie Wolfe Steadman and Steven A. Andersen

Chapter 2 Multidisciplinary Approach to Human Identification in Homicide Investigation: A Case Study from New York

Douglas H. Ubelaker, Mary Jumbelic, Mark Wilson, and E. Mark Levinsohn

Chapter 3 The Herring Case-An Outlier

Karen Ramey Burns

Chapter 4 An Incidental Finding

H. Gill-King

Chapter 5 Science Contextualized: The Identification of a U.S. MIA of the Vietnam War from Two Perspectives

Ann Webster Bunch and Colleen Carney Shine

Section II

Legal Considerations of Forensic Anthropology Casework in the United States

Chapter 6 Multiple Points of Similarity

Dawnie Wolfe Steadman is the Director of the Forensic Anthropology Center and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago and has been a professor at Iowa State University and Binghamton University, SUNY. Her research interests are in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology. She has conducted excavations and skeletal analyses of several historic and prehistoric archaeological sites in Illinois, Iowa, and New York. Dr. Steadman is particularly interested in paleopathology, population genetic modeling of past populations, and the application of forensic anthropology to human rights investigations.