forensic anthropology

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the branch of physical anthropology in which anthropological data, criteria, and techniques are used to determine the sex, age, genetic population, or parentage of skeletal or biological materials in questions of civil or criminal law.

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How to use forensic anthropology in a sentence

I went into forensic anthropology because I wanted to tell people stories from their skeletons.
100 Years After the Tulsa Race Massacre, Meet the Forensic Anthropologist Searching for Victims' Remains|Olivia B. Waxman|May 27, 2021|Time
Forensic tests showed the birds died after becoming coated in sludge, Hubbard said.
Two Texas Regulators Tried to Enforce the Rules. They Were Fired.|David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
To what extent was the testimony the grand jury heard corroborated or contradicted by forensic evidence?
Ferguson’s Grand Jury Bought Darren Wilson’s Story|Paul Campos|November 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If true, it will have a discernable consistency with the forensic evidence.
There’s No Conspiracy in Ferguson’s Secret Jury|Paul Callan|November 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST

But I jumped off the science track early, and took only one class in anthropology in college.
The Real-Life Raiders of the Lost Ark|Alex Belth|November 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I found the section of the book on forensic archaeology fascinating.
The Real-Life Raiders of the Lost Ark|Alex Belth|November 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He had a vanity easily lacerated, and he was now too savage to abate the ferocity of his forensic attack.
You Never Know Your Luck, Complete|Gilbert Parker
But it was in forensic eloquence that Cicero was pre-eminent, in which he had but one equal in ancient times.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I|John Lord
Boulanger's ideas on philosophy, mythology, anthropology and history are of extraordinary interest today.
Baron d'Holbach|Max Pearson Cushing
But famous as he was as a surgeon, his name is associated most closely with the modern school of anthropology.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3|Various
That was Pfalz-Neuburg's logic: none of the best, I think, in forensic genealogy.
History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. III. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle