Human and Nonhuman Bone Identification: A Concise Field Guide, Pages:295, $69.95

Description

Features

Uses a convenient format suitable for field use

Focuses on the bones most often discovered in field scenarios

Includes major features of bone growth and development

Contains an introduction to bird skeletal anatomy

Features more than 1200 photographs

Summary

In Human and Nonhuman Bone Identification: A Color Atlas,Diane L. France, one of the most respected forensic anthropologists in the world, offered a comprehensive handbook of photographs and other information essential for examining skeletal remains and determining species and body parts.

Conveniently designed for field use, this compact version of the book presents the major skeletal elements from the same species as the bestselling Atlas. Focusing on the bones most often discovered in field scenarios, the book is divided into two major sections:

General Osteology includes major features of bone growth and development and highlights general comparisons of quadrupedal mammals to human bones. This section includes an introduction to bird skeletal anatomy and some suggestions on how to clean and preserve bones.

Major Bones of the Bodies of Different Animals includes most bones from the cranium to the metatarsal.

Filled with more than 1200 annotated, crisp photographs, this handy guide enables law enforcement, medicolegal death investigators, forensic anthropologists, and others in the field and in the lab ready access to the information needed to help solve the mystery of discovered bones.

List of Contents

Part I: General Osteology
Part II: Major Bones of the Bodies of Different Animals
Cranium
Mandible
Scapula
Humerus
Radius
Ulna 
Metacarpals and Forelimbs
Pelvic Girdle
Femur
Tibia Fibula
Metatarsals and Hindlimbs
Index

Author(s)

Diane L. France, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA