ANTHROP 3FA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Forensic Anthropology, Soil Horizon, Ground-Penetrating Radar
14 Sep 2016
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Forensic archaeology is the application of archaeological theory and methods to the resolution of medicolegal and humanitarian issues. It may include methods involved in searching for, locating, surveying, sampling, recording and interpreting evidence, as well as recovery and documentation of human remains and associated evidence. The origins of forensic archaeology lie in the fact that traditional crime scene processing methods were often abandoned when scenes occurred outdoors, usually when substantial decomposition or fragmentation has occurred. Instead, any obvious evidence was quickly photographed and collected for lab processing. The location where human remains are found is often called a scene or recovery scene. Outdoor scenes may involve remains that are on the surface, buried, submerged or involved in fires (which is technically a specialized surface scene: surface scenes occur when remains are deposited on the surface of the ground. Sometimes the remains will be in a similar location and position to that where they were deposited.
