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Tibiae Essays…

Mortui Vivos Docent

Longer form than the fragments and notes of the blog posts. This page collects longer form essays to dive deeper into these topics around the history of forensic anthropology. With or without the medial malleolus.

206

Adult Human Bones

82

Howells’ Craniometric Measurements

284k

Missing Persons registered with the ICRC

Cortical bone

The thicker bone that provides structure, protects, and endures

Identity Variables
Identity Variables
Apple from memorial site at Tuam

Trabecular Bone

The intricate interior bone that lives, stabilizes and forms the marrow

Guerre 1939-1945. Genève. Agence centrale des prisonniers de guerre. Service des messages civils.

War Dead Identification

War Dead Identification – WWII & the Korean War impact of development of forensic anthropology

Essay by C. McDermott

  • CIP Manila, Philippines

  • CIP Strasbourg, France

    Strasbourg first central ID point The centralization of the scientific aspects of war dead identification is a key historical stream in the history of these efforts (one big happy family) Strasbourg Notes/history As presented in Strasbourg Winter, 2002 In the grim aftermath of World War II, the United States remained committed to documenting, retrieving, and…

  • Clyde C. Snow PhD- University of Oklahoma, FAA, International Humanitarian Forensics

    https://www.bernardoruiz.com/dispatches/2023/3/10/a-new-documentary-el-equipo-focuses-on-clyde-snow-and-the-argentine-forensic-anthropology-team

  • Charles P. Warren MS, MA, University of Illinois, Chicago

    Charles Preston Warren, born 7 April 1921 in Chicago, Illinois. The son of George and Ethel Warren Charles grew up in Chicago, according to Census records, his father was a mail clerk for the United States Postal Service. George originally from Kentucky, from parents also from Kentucky, Ethel was born in Ohio, with parents from…

  • Central Identification Unit – Kokura, Japan ~ Korean War

    During the Korean War the decision was made to evacuate all of the dead from the battlefield and return home all of the deceased servicembers to military or private burials in the United States. This was in contrast to the previous practices in World War I and World War II. In these previous conflicts individuals…

  • Humanitarian Forensics

    Humanitarian forensics is the description of the provision of forensic sciences expertise to support people in times of crisis, loss, deprivation, and uncertainty.

Rocky Versace
Memorial in Delray Neighborhood, Alexandria, Virginia

C. McDermott

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the <br>airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

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