The American Academy of Forensic Sciences Physical Anthropology section: the identification of human skeletal remains by age, sex, ancestry and stature, and the closely allied practice of forensic art, including facial approximation from a skull and age-progression imagery, both of which reconstruct a likely identity from skeletal or incomplete remains. Belongs here: disciplines identifying a person from skeletal structure or its visual reconstruction. Does not belong here: soft-tissue cause-of-death pathology, grouped under Pathology and Biology, or dental-specific identification, grouped under Odontology.
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During the 1950s, the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps employed forensic anthropologists in the identification of war casualties during the Korean War. It was at this time that forensic anthropology officially began.
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