Murder -- Building a science -- Forensic team -- Is it human? -- Crime scene -- Body farm -- Bug detectives --Hidden identity -- Positive identification -- It's in the genes -- Cause of death -- Face finding -- Last word -- Old bones -- Silent witness -- Bringing them home -- Appendixes
Summary
Uses actual cases, some drawn directly from news headlines, to describe some of the amazing advances and techniques being employed in the field of forensic anthropology at the beginning of the twenty-first century
Notes
Rev. ed. of: Talking bones. c1995
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-200) and index
