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forensic anthropology  

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  • As an area of applied physical anthropology, forensic anthropology has come into its own in the last twenty years. It focuses on the human skeleton and is indispensable to the investigation of a death when there are only bone fragments and trace materials available as evidence to help answer those questions that surround a person's death. [Source: Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment; Anthropology, Forensic]

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