Product Description

Comprehensive and engaging, Byers’s Introduction to Forensic Anthropology, 3e uses thoughtful pedagogy to lead students step-by-step through the most current and detailed forensic anthropology material available today.

This one-of-a-kind text offers comprehensive coverage of all of the major topics in the field of forensics with accuracy, intensity, and clarity. Extensive illustrations and photos ensure that the text is accessible for students.

As one reviewer says, “There is no other source available that is so comprehensive in its coverage of the methods and issues in the current practice of forensic anthropology.”

Another raves, “The first edition has been a big hit with my students, and I have been very pleased with the ease with which this text has corresponded to my class lecture structure . . . I am anxiously awaiting the next edition!”

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #612147 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 496 pages

From the Back Cover
Introduction to Forensic Anthropology

Third Edition

Steven N. Byers (University of New Mexico-Valencia)

Overview:

Comprehensive and engaging, Byers’s Introduction to Forensic Anthropology, Third Edition uses thoughtful pedagogy to lead students step-by-step through the most current and detailed forensic anthropology  material available today.

New to This Edition:

• A discussion of the importance of the Daubert v.Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Supreme Court decision to Forensic Anthropology (Chapter 1).
• A section on excavation methods for mass graves (Chapter 4).
• An easy—to-apply method for attributing ancestry from measurements of the femur (Chapter 7).
• New material on attributing sex from the head of the radius and on attributing sex to subadults (Chapter 8).
• Current information on trauma and its causative instruments (Chapters 12, 13, 14).

Other Titles of Interest:

Byers’s Forensic Anthropology Laboratory Manual, Second Edition (ISBN: 0-205-53236-5)
Designed to accompany Introduction to Forensic Anthropology, Third Edition by Steven Byers, the second edition of the Laboratory Manual reinforces lectures through its exercises and worksheets, allowing students to apply what is learned and helping instructors toward the goal of training students in forensic anthropology.

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