Beyond the body farm : a legendary bone detective explores murders, mysteries, and the revolution in forensic science / Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : William Morrow, c2007.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxii, 282 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780060875299 (hbk.)
- 0060875291 (hbk.)
- Bass, William M., 1928-
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Forensic Anthropology Center
- Forensic anthropology -- United States
- Forensic anthropology -- Tennessee
- Crime laboratories -- Tennessee
- Body, Human -- Identification
- Human skeleton -- Identification
- Human skeleton -- Analysis
- Forensic Anthropology -- United States -- Personal Narratives
- Forensic Anthropology -- United States -- Popular Works
- Criminology -- United States -- Personal Narratives
- Criminology -- United States -- Popular Works
- Laboratories -- United States -- Personal Narratives
- Laboratories -- United States -- Popular Works
- 614/.17 22
- GN69.8 .B35 2007
- 2007 K-727
- W 750
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Book | Karen H. Huntsman Library Main Book Collection - Second Level | 614.17 B293B | 1 | Available | 38060007340474 |
Includes index.
Introduction: A half-century of forensic evolution and revolution -- The golden bowl, the burning palace : applying modern science to ancient bones -- Splash landing, part 1 : finding answers in teeth and skull morphology -- Shedding light on a victims bones : using UV to illuminate identity -- Forensics at the speed of flight : interpreting teeth and trauma -- The rockets' red glare, bodies bursting in air : dealing with a mass disaster -- Dead for the holidays : determining time since death -- A Texas scorcher : finding a fingerprint in a frontal sinus -- No butts about it : convicting a killer by matching bite marks -- Listening to the bugs : pinpointing time since death with forensic entomology -- The professor versus the computer : harnessing software to determine race and ID a victim -- Science at the cutting edge : scanning a knife mark with electron microscopy -- Leoma Patterson, part 1 : reopening an old coffinand an old case with DNA -- Splash landing, part 2 : searching the depths with sonar -- Leoma Patterson, part 2 : putting a face on the dead -- The day the bopper died : digging for the truth, and finding it with x-rays -- Leoma Patterson, part 3 : pushing the limits of DNA testing.
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