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SCIENCE & JUSTICE
Volume 48, Issue 3, Pages 153-159Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.scijus.2007.10.010
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Human identification; Human provenancing; Stable isotope analysis; Scissor sisters
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- Department of Education of Learning (DEL)
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The relationship between diet, geographic location and isotopic composition of human tissue has been successfully exploited in archaeological and palaeodietary studies, i.e. on ancient man, but cases in which this approach has been applied to present-day people e.g. to aid identification of Mutilated or deteriorated bodies are far and few between. Stable isotope data are presented here from a case where for the first time stable isotope based intelligence aided victim identification by DNA analysis and subsequent apprehension of the perpetrators thus demonstrating that it is possible in principal for stable isotope data of present-day people to be useful for human provenancing, i.e. to yield valuable information about a person's life history and geographic origin. (C) 2007 Forensic Science Society. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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