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Revista Digital Universitaria
Revista Digital Universitaria ISSN: 1607 - 6079 | Publicación mensual | 1 de octubre de 2015 vol.16, No.10

ABSTRACT

Forensic Physical Anthropology: Culture, Biology and Law



Lilia Escorcia Hernández


This paper has been written with an approaching to the traditional category of forensic physical anthropology associated with the concept of death, in order to raise the reconfiguration of an inclusive concept, returning to the original theoretical and methodological principles, in which the culture and biology are inserted into the legal framework. This is the working line that the Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology follows in the Institute of Anthropological Research at UNAM.



Keywords: forensic anthropology, identification, ontogeny, somatology, osteology.