Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 496 pages
- Published by: Allyn & Bacon
- Edition: 2nd Edition August 30, 2004
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0205435386
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0205435388
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Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 7.1 x 1.1 inches
- Weighs: 1.9 pounds
Product Description
This new book offers comprehensive coverage of all the major topics in the field of forensics with accuracy, intensity, and clarity. Readers will rejoice in the thoughtful pedagogy that leads them step by step through the most current and detailed forensic anthropology book to date! Following the protocol developed for the field by Clyde Snow in his 1982 article in the Annual Review of Anthropology, this cutting-edge book includes coverage of all areas in the field including sections on "time since death" and "the effects of trauma on the skeleton." Extensive illustrations and photographs ensure the accessibility of the book. As one reviewer says, "There is no other source available that is so comprehensive in its coverage of the methods and issues in the current practice of forensic anthropology." For students or anyone interested in forensic anthropology.
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Comprehensive and engaging, Byers will leave students rejoicing in the thoughtful pedagogy that leads them step-by-step through the most current and detailed forensic anthropology text to date!
Highlights of the Second Edition: - New sections and tables on secondary traits for attributing ancestry (Ch. 7) and on secondary traits for attributing sex (Ch. 8) clearly explain for students the variation seen in traits that help determine these two parameters.
- Additional content on estimating age from secondary osteons seen in bone sections (Ch. 9) and histiological structures of teeth.
- New material on calculating stature from metatarsals (Ch. 10).
- An Instructor's Manual/Test Bank is now available as requested by users and reviewers.
Other Titles of Interest: Byers/Myster, Forensic Anthropology Laboratory Manual (ISBN: 0-205-41924-0) Designed to accompany
Introduction to Forensic Anthropology: A Textbook, Second Edition by Steven Byers (Allyn & Bacon, 2005) this laboratory manual provides students in academic laboratory courses hands-on experience with the major processes of forensic anthropology.
Instructors, use special ValuePackage ISBN: 0-205-44819-4 and receive 10% off the text and the lab manual! Visit www.ablongman.com/anthropology for more information on Allyn & Bacon Anthropology titles.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Introduction to Forensic Anthropology: A Textbook (Hardcover)
This book is a good introduction for students that has never studied the subject or a student who has very little understanding in the processes involved in Forensic Anthro. There are some errors in the book though; this is annoying, and may add some confusion to the unsuspecting student.
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