Papers by Jean-Pol Beauthier
[Ignored homicides]
PubMed, Mar 29, 2013
Forensic medicine is a fundamental science for a good evolution of the law and a serious protecti... more Forensic medicine is a fundamental science for a good evolution of the law and a serious protection of citizens. This science is also inextricably linked to public health. As basic discipline, we consider useful to revisit homicides which escape the investigators'sagacity and especially to know the reasons of this missing. Forensic high quality depends on respect of the crime scene, through specialized training and above all the recognition of this crucial discipline in our contemporary society.
L’appareil locomoteur: anatomie pratique, imagerie médicale, examen clinique
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Estimating adult age: cranial suture closure
Anthropologica et praehistorica, Mar 15, 2021
The specific question of clothing presence in burial context is often answered positively, thanks... more The specific question of clothing presence in burial context is often answered positively, thanks to artifacts like brooches for example. But when artefacts are missing, the task is more difficult, and frequent osteological arguments can only suggest the presence of clothing with the deceased. The gap in determining the presence of clothing is essentially related to a misunderstanding of the effect of clothing on the rate of human decomposition, and thus on the final arrangement of bones (in both forensic and archaeological contexts). Some forensic experiments have been conducted in this regard (essentially in the United States) but no synthesis or archaeological applications have been documented to date. Therefore, our presentation has two main goals: first, attempt to provide synthetic answers about the effect of clothing on the rate of decomposition (impact on entomological activity, progress of putrefaction, etc.) and, secondly, attempt to apply those forensic arguments to archaeological examples from a methodological and interpretative perspective (methods for recognizing clothing in burial context, contribution of clothes to burial practices analysis, etc.
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Papers by Jean-Pol Beauthier