Lab Manual and Workbook for Introduction to Physical Anthropology - Softcover

France, Diane L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 031407337X ISBN 13: 9780314073372

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 1997

Synopsis

This text has a lab manual/worktext format. It is designed to be used as a lab manual in colleges with sufficient laboratory materials for an introductory course in physical anthropology. It also provides exercise materials for those courses in which laboratory materials are not available. The manual covers genetics, human osteology, anthropometry (the measurement of the human body and its parts), forensic anthropology, primates, human evolution, etc.

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About the Author

Diane France received her Ph.D. in 1983 from the University of Colorado and was certified in forensic anthropology in 1989 by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology; she is currently on the board of directors and is also a fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. Dr. France is the director of the Laboratory for Human Identification at Colorado State University and is the president of NecroSearch, International, a multidisciplinary team dedicated to helping law enforcement search for clandestine graves and recovering evidence (including bodies) from those crime scenes. She is active in the federal disaster mortuary team, DMORT, and has responded to numerous mass fatality incidents. She is also a member of the Colorado Body Identification Team. Dr. France is well-known from her fossil casting business and as a board-certified forensic anthropologist.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 031407337X
• ISBN 13: 9780314073372
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 600