ABSTRACT
Anthropology is the scientic study of the origin and behavior of humans, including their biological and cultural development. Forensic anthropology is a rapidly growing and changing subeld that is based in biological anthropology but also draws on archeology, cultural anthropology, law, biology, environmental sciences, medicine, chemistry, and geology. Forensic anthropology has been dened as the application of biological anthropology to legal and social problems. erefore, forensic anthropologists are broadly trained within the four elds of anthropology: cultural studies, biology and evolutionary theory, archeology, and linguistics. ere are a number of recent textbooks that focus on this subject (e.g., Brickley & Ferllini, 2007; Byers, 2008; Dupras, Schultz, Wheeler, & Williams, 2006; Kimmerle & Baraybar, 2008; Komar & Buikstra, 2008).
