CRIM 356 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Missing Person, Dna Database, 18 Months
13 May 2016
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Week 8: stopped clocks and stable isotope analysis. Different packets of bone equals different packets of time: a single lamella can form in one week, in humans bone representing a total of 15 years is present. Reconstruction of life-history: incremental structures, forming, resting, maturation phase, resorptive, temporal ie a biological stratigraphy, also, hair - 18 months, fingernails - 7 months. Identifying human remains is a dif cult and challenging task: missing person search, dna pro les, regionalization using isotopic analysis, helps you narrow the search, not going to identify that person, but could lead to identi cation. The problem - international: the international commission for missing persons (ic-mp) estimates there could be as many as 40,000 people still missing as a result of the recent con icts in the former. Exhumations to date have resulted in between 12,000 and 13,000 body bags of metal remains being recovered.
