Forensic Anthropology

Skull and Bones at Karluk Lake
April 21, 2019

In my upcoming novel, Karluk Bones, my protagonist, Jane Marcus, and her friends stumble across…

TAGS: Forensic Anthropology, Karluk Bones, Murder Mystery, Robin Barefield, What we can learn from bones, Wilderness Mystery

You Are What You Eat: Bones Offer an Encyclopedia of Diet, Disease, and Trauma
April 14, 2019

What types of food did this individual eat, and did she die from a disease…

TAGS: Determining diseases from skeletal remains, Determining malnutrition and starvation from skeletal remains, Determining what a person ate from skeletal remains, Forensic Anthropology, Isotope Analysis, Skeletal Remains

Age of Skeletal Remains
April 7, 2019

Age is critical information when attempting to identify skeletal remains. How old was the individual…

TAGS: Bones, Forensic Anthropology, Forensic Entomology, How to Age a Skeleton, Post Mortem Interval, Robin Barefield, Skeltal Remains, Studying skeletal remains, Taphonomy, Time Since Death

What Can a Skeleton Tell You?
March 31, 2019

Last week, I asked you if you discovered a skeleton or a pile of bones…

TAGS: Determining Ancestry from a skull, Determining height from bone length, Femur length, Forensic Anthropology, Reading Bones, Relationship between femur length and height, Skeletal Remains

Bones
March 24, 2019

If you stumble across a pile of bones in the woods, can you tell if…

TAGS: Forensic Anthropology, How to determine gender from bones, Karluk Bones, Robin Barefield, What Bones tell us