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当无意中发现遗骸时,与案件相关的环境信息会被用来生成一个鉴定假设,而遗骸的保存情况通常会告知可使用哪些鉴定方法来验证该假设。然而,如果没有任何背景信息来生成鉴定假设,会发生什么情况呢?本文介绍了在澳大利亚维多利亚州桑迪角发现的一具近乎完整的人类骨骼。当时的情况不利于提出鉴定假说,由于没有假说来对鉴定过程进行分流,因此采用了所有可能的鉴定方法。由于尸体保存完好,因此既不可能用肉眼也不可能用指纹进行鉴定,而且由于缺乏鉴定假说,也没有死前的参考数据可以与死后的 DNA 或牙齿信息进行比较。因此,除了历史研究外,还利用了放射性碳年代测定和遗传情报等新方法来补充法医人类学和牙科分析提供的信息,最终完成了身份鉴定。这个例子凸显了身份不明骸骨案件的复杂性,并强调了一个事实,即身份鉴定是一个必然需要多学科合作的过程:只有通过整合人类学、牙医学、分子生物学、放射性碳年代测定、历史研究和家谱学,遗骸才能被确认为克里斯托弗-卢克-摩尔先生,他于 1928 年溺水身亡。
Moving from the unknown to the known: a multidisciplinary approach to the identification of skeletal remains from Sandy Point, Australia.
When human remains are inadvertently located, case-related circumstantial information is used to generate an identification hypothesis, and the preservation of the remains typically informs which identification methods may then be used to validate that hypothesis. What happens, however, when there is no contextual information to generate an identification hypothesis? This paper presents the case of a near-complete human skeleton discovered at Sandy Point in Victoria, Australia. The circumstances of the case did not facilitate an identification hypothesis, and with no hypothesis to triage the identification process, all possible identification methods were employed. Preservation of the individual meant neither a visual nor a fingerprint identification was possible, and the lack of an identification hypothesis meant there was no antemortem reference data to compare with the postmortem DNA or dental information. Consequently, in addition to historical research, novel methods, such as radiocarbon dating and genetic intelligence, were utilized to complement information provided by the forensic anthropology and odontology analyses, which ultimately resulted in the identification. This example highlights the complexity of cases of unidentified skeletal remains and emphasizes the fact that identification is a process that necessarily requires a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach.
Key points: Human skeletal remains were recovered from Sandy Point, Victoria.The absence of circumstantial information and the poor preservation (i.e. skeletonized) of the remains precluded the formation of an identification hypothesis, rendering the identification process complex.Only through the integration of anthropology, odontology, molecular biology, radiocarbon dating, historical research, and genealogy were the remains able to be identified as Mr. Christopher Luke Moore, who drowned in 1928.Human identification is a process that necessarily requires a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach.