Of clues and signs: The dead body and its evidential traces

American Anthropologist

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 69-80

  Crossland, Zoë ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaeology; Forensic anthropology; Materiality; Semiotics of the body

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349414170     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: 15481433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2009.01078.x     Document Type: Article

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