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Overview of human osteology, including forensic anthropology & paleopathology, with photos.
Online educational resources for students of Human Osteology, Physical - Biological Anthropology, Forensic Anthropology, Paleopathology, and related fields.
Online training course [The course costs $200 but lessons 1 & 2 are available for free.]
A link to the official site of the coroner's office as well as "Skeletons in the Closet," their gift shop.
This page has many links to sites of general forensic interest, forensic science organizations, forensic science journals, colleges/universities with forensic programs, job opportunities, forensic science laboratories, law enforcement agencies, forensic home pages, forensic chemistry/narcotics, mass spectometry, fingerprints, ballistics/firearms, microscopy, crime scene processing/investigation/photography, arson, DNA, toxicology, questioned documents, digital photography/imaging, image enhancing, web publishing/internet, forensic mailing lists etc.
This site is the main page for the Forensic Anthropology & Computer Enhanced Services of Louisiana State University.
The Skull Module was designed to demonstrate how World Wide Web technology and a graphical user interface could be used to assist in the development of classroom curriculum.
Another good quiz/study aid for the skull.
Learn the concepts of forensic entomology.
A link to the Forensic Sciences Society of Great Britian. Links to lots of sites there as well as their journal.
Links to colleges and universities are believed to have graduate programs that offer the ability to conduct graduate work in forensic anthropology, forensic archaeology, or a closely related subfield such as bioarchaeology or skeletal biology.
Lots of links to sites with quizes and tutorials
Information on this site on forensic science, forensic medicine and forensic psychology. For on line discussions on forensics, please visit Zeno's Forensic Message Board
Zeno Geradts is a forensic scientist at the Netherlands Forensic Science Laboratory at the forensic computer science department in the area of forensic (video) image processing and pattern recognition.
Online tutorial for the skull, hand, and wrist and major superficial muscles with illustrated & photographic images that include point-and-click anatomical identifications. Useful for reviewing anatomy online.
Tables describe the details of gross anatomy structures such as bones, muscles, nerves, and joints. Good for review.
Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopedics—a compete online textbook. Contains good sections on skeletal anatomy, bone biology, joints, muscles, and nerves.
The National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project has created a digital atlas of the human body.
The Dental Anthropology Association's site with a visual database of the human dentition. Each tooth can be rotated 360 degrees to provide comprehensive views of tooth morphology. Has good links to other dental anthropology sites.
A reference guide to graduate programs in forensic anthropology.
Discusses the difference between forensic anthropologists & forensic pathologists, and provides information on education & careers in forensic anthropology.
Provides extensive links to other forensic anthropology sites.
W.w. Howells' [1973] craniometric data can be downloaded from this site.
The Cleveland Museum's Hamann–Todd skeletal database available for online searches by specimen number, age, height, weight, sex, or ethnic origin. Casts of human & nonhuman primate crania & postcrania available for sale.
Paleopathology image collection [with text descriptions' of skeletons from the Crow Creek massacre & from the University of South Dakota collection.
Merck Manual's online site covers oteoarthritis, bone & cartilage disorders, infections of bones & joints, arthritis associated with spondylitis.
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