A beginner’s guide to historical investigation
Forensic archaeology/anthropology
Facial reconstruction
www.nysm.nysed.gov/research/anthropology/crsp/
arccrsppearlstfacial.html
The step-by-step reconstruction of the skull of 300-year-old skeleton found in an abandoned cemetery in Albany, New York.
OsteoInteractive
http://library.med.utah.edu/kw/osteo/index2.html
Mainly a website for forensic anthropology professionals, this also has a lot of useful information on human osteology, forensic anthropology, palaeopathology and histology.
Visible proofs
www.nlm.nih.gov/visibleproofs/
The history of forensic medicine, from the US National Library of Medicine.
Spoilheap: Human bones
www.spoilheap.co.uk/hsr.htm
A generally successful attempt to define and describe some relatively complicated information about human osteology.
Bodies and bones
http://whyfiles.org/192forensic_anthro/
A surprisingly jolly website on forensic anthropology, with information and photos of the Tennessee ‘body farm’.
