By Anna J. Osterholtz, Kathryn M. Baustian, Debra L. Martin

​Commingled and Disarticulated Human Remains:Working towards more suitable thought, process, and information brings jointly examine that offers cutting edge methodologies for the research of commingled human is still. It has temporal and spatial breadth, with case reviews coming from pre-state to old classes, in addition to from either the hot and outdated global. Highlights of this quantity contain:
standardizes tools and offers most sensible practices within the box utilizing a case research process
demonstrates how facts collected from commingled human is still may be integrated into the general interpretation of a domain
explores most sensible technique to formulate inhabitants measurement, utilizing commingled continues to be

Field archaeologists, bioarchaeologists, educational anthropologists, forensic anthropologists, zoo archaeologists, and scholars of anthropology and archaeology will locate this to be a useful resource.

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Knüsel and Outram, in contrast, argue for a zonal method where individual features of the bones are scored as present and MNI is determined using the highest counts of features (Knüsel & Outram, 2004). The project discussed in this chapter uses a feature-based method for the determination of MNI. This technique differentiates skeletal features by bone density. The method was adapted from analysis completed on a large commingled and fragmented collection from the American Southwest at a site called Sacred Ridge (Osterholtz & Stodder, 2010, 2011; Stodder & Osterholtz, 2010; Stodder, Osterholtz, Mowrer, & Chuipka, 2010).

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