Anthropologists were quick to recognize the potential of new techniques in molecular
biology to provide additional lines of evidence on questions long investigated in …

The introduction of molecular biology techniques, especially of DNA analysis, for human
identification is a recent advance in legal medicine. Substantial effort has continuously been …

The extraction of DNA from archaeological or forensic skeletal remains can provide quite
powerful data for analysis, but is plagued by a unique set of methodological problems. One …

The determination of identity and the evaluation of trauma require special consideration
when a body suffers extreme levels of damage sustained in a fire. Beginning with the search …

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial reviews the current state of
mortuary archaeology and its practice, highlighting its often contentious place in the modern …

In forensic DNA analysis, the samples recovered from the crime scene are often highly
degraded leading to poor PCR amplification of the larger sized STR loci. To avoid this …

The amount of nuclear DNA extracted from teeth of 279 individual red fox Vulpes vulpes
collected over a period spanning the last three decades was determined by quantitative …

Demographic bottlenecks can result in a loss of genetic variation due to the bottleneck effect
and subsequent genetic drift. The arctic fox population in Scandinavia went through a …

This method is designed to assemble long, continuous DNA sequences using minimal
amounts of fragmented ancient DNA as template. This is achieved by a two-step approach …

This applications review aims to present a concise survey of articles appearing in
publications that primarily appeal to forensic practitioners. With this objective, we have …