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The Current Status of Methods Usage in Forensic Anthropology Casework Using the Forensic Anthropology Database for Assessing Methods Accuracy (FADAMA)

NCJ Number
307296
Journal
American Journal of Biological Anthropology Volume: 177 Issue: S73 Dated: 2022 Pages: 92-93
Date Published
2022
Annotation

This document provides a listing of scientific presentations from the American Association of Biological Anthropologists in 2022.

Abstract

This program document lists presentations, organized according to category and presentation date, providing the presentation title and authors. The scientific sessions listed in the program fall under the following categories: Symposia – Building on the legacy of Adolf Portmann, Interdisciplinary approaches to human evolution and development; and Integumentary Anthropology, Examining the Exterior. Paleoanthropology: Behavior and Cognition; Diet and Ecology; Early Hominins; Later Hominins; and Non-human Primates. Bioarchaeology: Behavior, Disease, and Migration; Mobility and Burial; Theoretical Advances; Diet; and Methodological advances, parts 1 and 2. Human Biology: Health, Disease, and Complex Traits; Hormones and Age; Energetics and Physiology; and Health and Disease. Human Skeletal Biology: Craniofacial Studies. Primatology: Biogeography, Landscape Ecology, and Diet; Conservation and the Effects of a Changing Environment on Behavior; Health, physiology, and neurology; Morphology and Movement; The Macaque Brain and Body; and Play, Social Structure, and Mating. Forensic Anthropology: Assessing Taphonomy and Trauma; Evaluating Methods using Databases and Meta-Analyses; and Exploring Terminology and Methods for Biological Profiles. Dental Anthropology: From Methods to Migration; and Studies in Nonhuman Primates. Functional Anatomy – Cranial Modularity and Plasticity; Locomotion, parts 1, 2, and 3; and Below the Belt. Genetics and Genomics: Adaptation and Complex Traits; Adaptation, Microbiome; and Populations, parts 1 and 2; Education: Institutions and accessibility in biological anthropology. Human Biology: Birth and Breastfeeding; and Pedagogy in biological anthropology. The Pelvis. Human Behavior: Applying Evolutionary Theory; and Stress, Mental Health, and Coping. And the last presentation category is: What They Do in the Shadows – New Perspectives on Africa’s Nocturnal Bushbabies.

Date Published: January 1, 2022