Cadaver Dog Handbook sets out the principles and procedures for the training and handling of dogs for the location of human remains. It explains scent theory and its applications, introduces basic training and searching strategies/tactics, and covers the legal and taphonomic issues associated with dog searches. This book adopts an interdisciplinary approach, which renders the text useful to virtually all participants in the search for and the evaluation of human remains. Cadaver Dog Handbook is organized for quick reference. If you are primarily interested in training and handling, you will find abundant information devoted to those subjects. Even more, the book provides a wealth of materials that allows you to expand your expertise to other aspects of the forensic framework, such as for scene investigation, chain of custody protocol, documentation, expert testimony, and the legal issues regarding the use of dogs for searches. The text also covers the use of technical location devices, mapping aids, remote sensing techniques, water searches, and decomposition processes and their variations. Features Covers training, handling, and utilization of dogs trained to find human decomposition scent, Analyzes environmental contexts where dogs are used to search for human remains, including surface, burial, and underwater site, Explains principles of forensic science in relation to dog use, Discusses dog and handler as part of the forensic search team, Includes legal and professional issues Book jacket.
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Draws contributions from fifty experienced practitioners from around the world to offer a benchmark of knowledge in both the practical and research components of forensic work conducted by anthropologists and archaeologists.
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This is what happens when Dr Bass goes beyond the Body Farm.
The remainder of the book is a head-to-foot, structure-by-structure, bone-by-bone tour of the skeleton. More than 400 photographs and drawings and more than 80 tables illustrate and analyze features the text describes.
Human Remains
Traumatismos óseos: identificación de las lesiones resultantes de las violaciones de los derechos humanos y conflictos armados
Hawaii and the Army -- The tibia -- Life and career -- Women in early physical anthropology -- Women's experiences -- Marginalized contemporaries -- Race, sex, and research -- Later years.
This volume will be the benchmark for the understanding of anthropological and archaeological forensics for years to come. This Handbook is sponsored by World Archaeological Congress"--
Written for young readers (6 years through adolescent), Claire Carter, forensic anthropologist, and her 10-year-old niece, Penelope, anthropologist in training, visit a small town in western Louisiana to assist law enforcement in resolving ...