Useful Weblinks

1. GENERAL FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY LINKS

http://www.theabfa.org – American Board of Forensic Anthropology

Various definitions for forensic anthropologist, list of board certified forensic anthropologists, information for students wishing to become forensic anthropologists, related websites, and other information.

http://www.swganth.org – The Scientific Working Group for Forensic Anthropology

Group sponsored by the FBI and Department of Defense Central Identification Laboratory to create guidelines for the practice of forensic anthropology, and provide other information to forensic anthropologists.

http://qrius.si.edu/jump/forensic-anthropology

One of the many webpages at the Smithsonian Institution dealing with forensic anthropology; contains information and links to other webpages.

2. SOURCES OF HUMAN BONE: REAL AND CASTS

http://www.carolina.com - Carolina Biological Supply

Markets real human skeletons as well as high and low-cost casts.

http://www.daigger.com - A. Daigger & Company, Inc.

Markets a plastic human skeleton.

http://www.boneclones.com - Bone Clones, Inc.

Provides highly durable resin casts of human skulls from various ancestral groups, sets of bones comparing males and females (e.g., skull, pelvis, femur), skeletons of adults and subadults, and immature individual bones (e.g., femur with epiphyses, individual bones of the os coxa). It also markets a fairly large collection of forensic and pathological specimens. In addition to this collection, it has a wide variety of casts of nonhuman animal bone.

http://www.francecasts.com - France Casting

Provides detailed, durable casts of various human and nonhuman bones. The list of casts include skulls of different ancestral groups, male versus female

pelvises, trephined skull, nonhuman animals, and so on. In addition, this company provides a good assortment of bones with pathological conditions as well as casts of pubic faces showing changes with age.

http://www.boneroom.com - The BoneRoom

Bills itself as “the web’s premier natural history store” and offers an impressive number of bones and casts of both human and non-human remains.

http://www.a3bs.com - American 3B Scientific

Offers an assortment of human skull casts and casts of a disarticulated human skeleton.

http://www.skullduggery.com – Skullduggery

Sells a limited number of human skull casts: one male, one female, a skull with trephination, and one with cranial deformation.

3. FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY CENTERS

http://web.utk.edu/~fac/  – Forensic Anthropology Center at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

http://anthropology.msu.edu/msufal/ - Michigan State University Forensic Anthropology Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

http://www.poundlab.org/ - The C. A. Pound Human Identification Laboratory, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

http://www.csuchico.edu/anth/csuchil/  - California State University Chico Human Identification Lab, California State University, Chico, CA

http://www.txstate.edu/anthropology/facts/ - Texas State University Forensic Anthropology Center, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

http://www.lsu.edu/faceslab/ - Louisiana State University FACES Laboratory, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

http://www.wcu.edu/learn/departments-schools-colleges/cas/casdepts/anthsoc/academic-programs/foranth/western-carolina-human-identification-laboratory.asp - Western Carolina Human Identification Laboratory, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC

4. FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY PROGRAMS

http://www.calstatela.edu/graduatestudies/anthropology-ma - California State University-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; offers Master of Arts degree in Forensic Anthropology.

http://hs.umt.edu/anthropology/default.php - University of Montana, Missoula, MT; offers a forensic anthropology option at both the Bachelor’s  and Master’s level.

http://www.wcu.edu/learn/departments-schools-colleges/cas/casdepts/anthsoc/academic-programs/foranth/ - Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC; offers a forensic anthropology concentration at the Bachelor’s level.

http://www.mercyhurst.edu/academics/graduate-programs/anthropology - Mercyhurst University, Erie, PA; offers a forensic anthropology concentration at the Master’s level.

http://anthropology.msu.edu/ - Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; offers a Ph.D. in Anthropology with focus on forensic anthropology.

http://www.csuchico.edu/catalog/cat09/anth/ - California State University-Chico, Chico, CA; offers a certificate in forensic identification (forensic anthropology).

http://web.utk.edu/~anthrop/default.html - University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN; offers a Ph.D. in Anthropology with focus on forensic anthropology.

http://anthro.ufl.edu/ - University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; offers a Ph.D. in Anthropology with focus on forensic anthropology

http://www.txstate.edu/anthropology/ - Texas State University, San Marcos, TX; offers a Master of Arts in Anthropology with focus on forensic anthropology

http://ga.lsu.edu/ - Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA; offers a Ph.D. in Anthropology with a concentration in forensic anthropology