BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX To forensic anthropologists, the analysis of human bone opens the portal of scientific truth that enables the justice system to discover the facts and circumstances surrounding criminal acts. Trained in anthropology, archaeology, human osteology, and chain-of-evidence procedures, forensic anthropologists are primary players in forensic science both in the field and in th...
BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX I have gazed on the face of death innumerable times, witnessed it in all its grim manifestations. Death has no power to freeze my heart, jangle my nerves, or sway my reason. Death to me is no terror of the night, but a daylight companion, a familiar condition, a process obedient to scientific laws and answerable to scientific inquiry. (Maples and Browning, 1994: 2) The m...
