Vertebrate scavengers frequently affect forensic casework by feeding on human remains or
by scattering body parts and bones. Therefore, animal activity can influence complete …

Simple Summary Teeth are the hardest anatomical structure of the animal body. As a result,
even when preservation conditions are extremely poor and the rest of the skeleton …

Gnawing from animal species is a common alteration to human bones and comes under
frequent forensic analysis in order to separate these effects from human-caused trauma and …

Accurate sex estimation is crucial to determine the identity of human skeletal remains
effectively. Here, we developed convolutional neural network (CNN) models for sex …

The field of forensic archaeology has developed over recent years from being a branch of
conventional archaeology into a well-established discipline in its own right. Forensic …

With research providing conflicting results from different habitats across the globe, the effect
of clothing on decomposition is unclear; some studies indicate clothing increases …

Forensic anthropologists assess sex by analysing quantitative and qualitative characters of
the human skeleton. In general, the pelvis and skull are the skeletal regions used most often …

Vertebrate scavengers can modify surface deposited human remains which can hinder
forensic investigations. The effects of such scavenging vary between species and regions …

Vertebrate scavenging can significantly accelerate the rate of decomposition, which can
hinder estimating the post-mortem interval (PMI). Patterns of decomposition and scavenging …

The effect of vertebrate scavenging can drastically alter the rate of decomposition and cause
skeletal scatter, which hinders human forensic recovery and identification. Patterns of …