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DOCUMENT Citation Only Colene Knaub. Nicole Jacobson. Kate Flor-Stagnato.

Records of human rights violations precede biblical times and have shown no signs of decelerating despite the contemporary measures taken to clearly define such atrocities. In the case of the Armenian Genocide, committed by the Ottoman Empire during WWI, the Young Turk government took great care as to restrict the publication of photographs and reports that would expose the widely condoned practice and to this day claim to have no responsibilty or knowledge of such occurrences. The physical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ann Marie Mires.

This is an abstract from the "Forensic Archaeology: Research & Practice" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A niche is opening for Forensic Archaeologists to assist in establishing paternity to Catholic priests through exhumation. In June 2018, I was contacted by Jim Graham who for 25 years has tried to prove that he is the son of a deceased Catholic priest after being presented with an obituary and told the man could be his biological father....