Forensic Archaeology
Definition
The application of archaeological field methods, including systematic search, controlled excavation, and single-context recording, to scenes that have a legal significance, whether criminal, civil, or relating to international humanitarian law.
Related terms
- AGSA
- The Archaeology and Forensic Science group, a specialist network within the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA), which has developed standards for casework,...
- EAAF
- The Equipo Argentino de Antropologia Forense (Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team), founded in 1984 to investigate disappearances during the military dictatorship. Widely regarded...
- Forensic Anthropology
- The laboratory and scene-side discipline concerned with the analysis of skeletal and decomposed remains to establish biological profile, manner of death, trauma,...
- International Criminal Tribunal
- A judicial body established under international law to prosecute serious violations of international humanitarian law. The ICTY (1993) and the ICC (2002)...
- Scene Manager
- The role a forensic archaeologist often takes in the field: responsible for the physical recovery strategy, the recording system, and the integrity...
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- History and Scope of Forensic ArchaeologyThe application of archaeological field methods, including systematic search, controlled excavation, and single-context recording, to scenes that have a legal...