Anthropology is the study of humans, physically and culturally, in the past and present. Forensic Anthropology uses anthropological knowledge and techniques in a legal context. Standard methods in osteology (skeletal anatomy and biology) are used to identify skeletal remains and, in some cases, the cause of death. These methods include Age and Sex Assessment, Stature and Ancestry Estimation, and observations on Pathology (disease) and Taphonomy (after death processes). Forensic Anthropology also uses archaeological techniques in the recovery of human remains. The eForensics Project website is focused on the study of Forensic Anthropology. It offers an interactive set of teaching modules that allows a user to learn the evaluation techniques forensic anthropologists use to gain important information from a skeleton.

 

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Created at the University of Texas at Austin by

Principal Investigator: John Kappelman, PhD

Project Manager (current): Lauri McInnis Martin, PhD

ColdFusion, SQL and Database Programming: Stuart Ross

Current Contributors: Claud Bramblett, Chris Lamb, Nicholas Morgan, and Adrienne Witzel.