Forensic Anthropology Laboratory Manual

About Chelsey A. JuarezSteven N. Byers

Steven N. Byers has a PhD in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico (UNM) USA. Now retired he worked for a number of years on various campuses of UNM teaching courses in forensic anthropology biological anthropology and archaeology. He is currently serving on the Anthropology Consensus Body of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Standards Board in addition to focusing on Southeastern United States bioarchaeology. Byers publications with Taylor & Francis include Introduction to Forensic Anthropology (in its sixth edition).Chelsey A. Juarez is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and the Director of the Fresno State Forensic Anthropology Laboratory at California State University Fresno USA. She is also the Director of the Central California Missing and Unidentified Deceased Persons Cold Case Initiative a 19-county initiative to identify the deceased unidentified in rural Central California. Her research interests focus on isotopic investigations of provenance and diet with a special focus on the Latino Diaspora and the USMexico border through time. In addition she has researched and written about child abuse intimate partner violence and case accuracy trends in forensic anthropology. She is a first generation Mexican-American. She holds a doctorate from the University of California Santa Cruz in Biological Anthropology with a specialization in forensic anthropology and the Latino Diaspora.