7 ^th American Forensic Conference: R&D and Novel Technologies

Forensic Anthropology

Forensic anthropology is the application of the science of anthropology and its several subfields, including Biological Anthropology (Physical) and Cultural Anthropology (Ethnology, Archaeology, Linguistics), in a legal setting. Its main significance includes disaster victim identification, other applications like Novel application of anthropometry, X-ray fluorescence and chemo metric analytical techniques in chemical anthropology, Virtual anthropology and forensic anthropology case reports. The U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS) projected a 19% growth in employment for anthropologists and archaeologists from 2012 to 2022. Many universities approximately 10 universities in USA works under forensic anthropology, but private investigators are there under this.