Services:

The Humboldt Department of Anthropology and the Biological Anthropology Research Center offer services to local law enforcement, search and rescue, tribal agencies, and cultural resources organizations, including:

• Workshops on identifying human skeletal remains in the field, including differentiating from nonhuman animal remains. These workshops can be accomplished with use of plastic casts of human remains, if preferred.
• Assistance with field recovery of remains.
• Examination of fully or partially skeletalized remains, including identification as human or nonhuman, removal of adherent materials, cleaning, sorting, and forensic anthropological assessment of age, stature, sex, pathologies, and trauma.

• eSkeletons
• Virtual Bison (images of cow skeletal elements)
• Field Guide (available upon request)

*For forensic services or other matters needing quick response, please use email.