Douglas Ubelaker's Bones: The Forensic Casebook
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For this just for me project I decided to read for pleasure. The book I am reading right now is Bones: The Forensic Casebook. This book is about forensic anthropology and it is very interesting. The main author Douglas Ubelaker is a forensic anthropologist that works at the Smithsonian museum and a consultant for the FBI in forensic anthropology. In this book he talks about all the many murder cases that he helped the FBI with and all the ancient remains that he has found all over the world. Dr. Ubelaker seemed not to be quite sure what would interest us and what we either didn't need explained or didn't want to know. For example, I really don't need the names and addresses of all the diplomates of the American Board of Forensic
Anthropology (6 pages). One thing that I don’t like about this book is that Dr. Ubelaker stated that forensic anthropologists could determine a lot about a person from their bones but then included too many cases where the investigation concluded with identity of the remains still unknown. Over all it is still a really interesting book. My favorite case was the one in chapter two where the bog bones were mistaken for human remains. They had to go through a lot of a trouble just to determine that it was indeed a dog bone. I only have five chapters of this book left and after that I want to start A Dance with Dragons. I am really looking forward to that book and I can’t wait to start it.
For this just for me project I decided to read for pleasure. The book I am reading right now is Bones: The Forensic Casebook. This book is about forensic anthropology and it is very interesting. The main author Douglas Ubelaker is a forensic anthropologist that works at the Smithsonian museum and a consultant for the FBI in forensic anthropology. In this book he talks about all the many murder cases that he helped the FBI with and all the ancient remains that he has found all over the world. Dr. Ubelaker seemed not to be quite sure what would interest us and what we either didn't need explained or didn't want to know. For example, I really don't need the names and addresses of all the diplomates of the American Board of Forensic
Anthropology (6 pages). One thing that I don’t like about this book is that Dr. Ubelaker stated that forensic anthropologists could determine a lot about a person from their bones but then included too many cases where the investigation concluded with identity of the remains still unknown. Over all it is still a really interesting book. My favorite case was the one in chapter two where the bog bones were mistaken for human remains. They had to go through a lot of a trouble just to determine that it was indeed a dog bone. I only have five chapters of this book left and after that I want to start A Dance with Dragons. I am really looking forward to that book and I can’t wait to start it.