Anthropologist-directed triage: Three distinct mass fatality events involving fragmentation of human remains

Recovery, Analysis, and Identification of Commingled Human Remains

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 123-144

  Mundorff, Amy Z ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 84892302639     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-316-5_7     Document Type: Chapter

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