Chapter 17: Additional Aspects of Individualization

This chapter presents three methods to help identify a decedent when methods from the previous chapters have not yielded an identification. Specifially, the method used to reproduce the living likenesses of individuals from their skulls is described. Next, the up and coming method of reproducing living likeness from DNA is described. Last, the use of stable isotopes for helping to identify, or exclude, region of origin of persons is presented.