Here find scattered writings and collections of the history of forensic anthropology. Traces collected here of the past
- selected case files/stories
- correspondence betwixt the scientists, academics, and public
- achievements, challenges, and controversies
- professionalization work in the 20th Century
- Anatomists, anthropologists, and medical practitioners. applying their knowledge(s) in forensic contexts
- Essays and annotations about History of Forensic Anthropology, Medico-legal Death Investigation, Study and Understanding of Dead Humans
Though still a small-ish profession, forensic anthropology is a major field of study and develops practitioners of professionalized discipline to the medico-legal and humanitarian worlds of events and applied science.
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This website is a research blog in progress for the history of forensic anthropology and humanitarian forensics. The focus is primarily on the development of forensic anthropology in the 20th Century, Personalities, Institutions, research, professionalization, and conceptual growth in an applied forensic science.
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