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Dr Trudi Buck's Outputs (8)

The Body in the Ditch: Alternative Funerary Practices on the Northern Frontier of the Roman Empire? (2019)
Journal Article
Buck, T., Greene, E. M., Meyer, A., Barlow, V., & Graham, E. (2019). The Body in the Ditch: Alternative Funerary Practices on the Northern Frontier of the Roman Empire?. Britannia: A Journal of Romano-British and Kindred Studies, 50, 203-224. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0068113x1900014x

Disarticulated human remains were recovered from a first-century fort ditch at Vindolanda on the north-west frontier of the Roman Empire. Ancient DNA analysis revealed the skeleton to be that of a male individual and forensic taphonomic analysis sugg... Read More about The Body in the Ditch: Alternative Funerary Practices on the Northern Frontier of the Roman Empire?.

Forensic identification and identity politics in 2004 Post-Tsunami Thailand: Negotiating dissolving boundaries (2015)
Journal Article
Merli, C., & Buck, T. (2015). Forensic identification and identity politics in 2004 Post-Tsunami Thailand: Negotiating dissolving boundaries. Human Remains and Violence: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1(1), 3-22. https://doi.org/10.7227/hrv.1.1.2

This article considers the contexts and processes of forensic identification in 2004 post-tsunami Thailand as examples of identity politics. The presence of international forensic teams as carriers of diverse technical expertise overlapped with burea... Read More about Forensic identification and identity politics in 2004 Post-Tsunami Thailand: Negotiating dissolving boundaries.

You can die but once? Creativity, narrative and epistemology in Western death (2014)
Journal Article
Buck, T., & Pipyrou, S. (2014). You can die but once? Creativity, narrative and epistemology in Western death. Mortality, 19(3), 261-283. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2014.929567

Employing two case studies from different spheres of anthropological practice, we argue that a narrative approach provides productive analytical ground for the study of Western death. It has been argued that narratives are attempts to create a presen... Read More about You can die but once? Creativity, narrative and epistemology in Western death.

Craniofacial Evolution in Polynesia: A Geometric Morphometric Study of Population Diversity. (2012)
Journal Article
Buck, T., & Strand Viđarsdóttir, U. (2012). Craniofacial Evolution in Polynesia: A Geometric Morphometric Study of Population Diversity. American Journal of Human Biology, 24(6), 776-785. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.22315

Objectives: This study tests differences in craniofacial size and shape attributed to demographic history and plastic responses to differing environments in the islands of Polynesia. The dispersal of modern humans into Polynesia provides a useful sce... Read More about Craniofacial Evolution in Polynesia: A Geometric Morphometric Study of Population Diversity..

A proposed method for the identification of race in sub-adult skeletons: a geometric morphometric analysis of mandibular morphology (2004)
Journal Article
Buck, T., & Strand Vidarsdóttir, U. (2004). A proposed method for the identification of race in sub-adult skeletons: a geometric morphometric analysis of mandibular morphology. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 49(6), 1159-1164. https://doi.org/10.1520/jfs2004074

The identification of biological race (ancestry) in skeletal material is an important aspect of forensic investigations. While techniques for race determination are well established for adult skeletons, identification of race in sub-adult specimens h... Read More about A proposed method for the identification of race in sub-adult skeletons: a geometric morphometric analysis of mandibular morphology.