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  1. A Synopsis of Two Decades of Arthropod Related Research at the Forensic Anthropology Research Facility (FARF), Texas State University (TXST), San Marcos, Texas, USA

    Article • Insects, August 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  2. The Mass Grave Project

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Daniel J Wescott, Kennedy Doro

  3. An Introduction to The Orbital Buttresses

    Article • Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, June 2024, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  4. Macroscopic differences in adult human femora are linked to body mass index

    Article • The Anatomical Record, January 2024, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  5. Unmanned aerial systems for the search and documentation of clandestine human remains

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  6. The impact of freezing on the post-mortem human microbiome

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, March 2023, Frontiers

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  7. Comparative study of Rapid DNA versus conventional methods on compromised bones

    Article • Forensic Science International Genetics, March 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  8. Sr–Pb isotope differences in pre- and post-burial human bone, teeth, and hair keratin: implications for isotope forensics

    Article • International Journal of Legal Medicine, February 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  9. Effects of obesity on talar micro‐ and macro‐morphology

    Article • Journal of Forensic Sciences, January 2023, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  10. The ‘ForensOMICS’ approach for postmortem interval estimation from human bone by integrating metabolomics, lipidomics, and proteomics

    Article • eLife, December 2022, eLife

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  11. Preliminary Investigation of the Effect of Maceration Procedures on Bone Metabolome and Lipidome

    Article • Metabolites, October 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  12. The “ForensOMICS” approach to forensic post-mortem interval estimation: combining metabolomics, lipidomics and proteomics for the analysis of human bone

    Article • October 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  13. Geophysical imaging of buried human remains in simulated mass and single graves: Experiment design and results from pre-burial to six months after burial

    Article • Forensic Science International, June 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Daniel J Wescott, Kennedy Doro

  14. Time-Lapse Electrical Resistivity Tomography Imaging of Buried Human Remains in Simulated Mass and Individual Graves

    Article • Frontiers in Environmental Science, May 2022, Frontiers

    Dr Daniel J Wescott, Kennedy Doro

  15. Human Bone Proteomes before and after Decomposition: Investigating the Effects of Biological Variation and Taphonomic Alteration on Bone Protein Profiles and the Implications for Forensic Proteomics

    Article • Journal of Proteome Research, March 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  16. Reprint of: The effects of decomposition and environment on antemortem H-Pb-Sr isotope compositions and degradation of human scalp hair: Actualistic taphonomic observations

    Article • Forensic Science International, December 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  17. Postmortomics: The Potential of Untargeted Metabolomics to Highlight Markers for Time Since Death

    Article • OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology, November 2020, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  18. The Effects of Inter-Individual Biological Differences and Taphonomic Alteration on Human Bone Protein Profiles: Implications for the Development of PMI/AAD Estimation Methods

    Article • October 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  19. Review of: Estimation of the time since death: Current research and future trends

    Article • Journal of Forensic Sciences, October 2020, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  20. Estimating postmortem interval for human cadavers in a sub‐tropical climate using UV‐Vis‐near‐infrared Spectroscopy

    Article • Journal of Forensic Sciences, September 2020, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  21. Non-invasive post-mortem interval diagnostics using a hand-held Raman spectrometer

    Article • Forensic Chemistry, August 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  22. The effects of decomposition and environment on antemortem H-Pb-Sr isotope compositions and degradation of human scalp hair: Actualistic taphonomic observations

    Article • Forensic Science International, July 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  23. Biomechanical Analysis of Long Bones Provides the Crucial Break in Decedent Identification

    Article • October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  24. Reevaluation of the body mass estimate for the KNM‐ER 5428 Homo erectus talus

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, July 2019, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  25. Postmortem change in bone biomechanical properties: Loss of plasticity

    Article • Forensic Science International, July 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  26. Preservation of hair stable isotope signatures during freezing and law enforcement evidence packaging

    Article • Forensic Chemistry, December 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  27. Decomposiiton Research

    Article • Forensic Sciences Research, August 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  28. The effect of ontogeny on estimates of KNM-WT 15000's adult body size

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, August 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Robert C McCarthy, Dr Daniel J Wescott

  29. Controlled experimental observations on joint disarticulation and bone displacement of a human body in an open pit: Implications for funerary archaeology

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, August 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  30. The Use of X-ray Computed Tomography Technologies in Forensic Anthropology

    Article • Forensic Anthropology, March 2018, University Press of Florida

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  31. Survey and Insights into Unmanned Aerial-Vehicle-Based Detection and Documentation of Clandestine Graves and Human Remains

    Article • Human Biology, January 2018, Project Muse

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  32. Validation of the Total Body Score/Accumulated Degree-Day Model at Three Human Decomposition Facilities

    Article • Forensic Anthropology, January 2018, University Press of Florida

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  33. The forensic anthropologist as broker for cross‐disciplinary taphonomic research related to estimating the postmortem interval in medicolegal death investigations

    Article • December 2017, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  34. An evaluation of soil chemistry in human cadaver decomposition islands: Potential for estimating postmortem interval (PMI)

    Article • Forensic Science International, October 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  35. Postmortem microbial communities in burial soil layers of skeletonized humans

    Article • Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, July 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  36. White-tailed Deer as a Taphonomic Agent: Photographic Evidence of White-tailed Deer Gnawing on Human Bone

    Article • Journal of Forensic Sciences, May 2017, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  37. Using dental cementum increment analysis to estimate age and season of death in African Americans from an historical cemetery in Missouri

    Article • International Journal of Paleopathology, December 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  38. Primate Comparative Anatomy. By Daniel LGebo. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2014. 208pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-1489-8. $84.95 (Hardcover)

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, April 2016, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  39. Comparison of decomposition rates between autopsied and non-autopsied human remains

    Article • Forensic Science International, April 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  40. The Effects of Soil Texture on the Ability of Human Remains Detection Dogs to Detect Buried Human Remains

    Article • Journal of Forensic Sciences, March 2016, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  41. Tooth Development in Human Evolution and Bioarchaeology . Edited by SimonHillson. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2013. 307 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-01133-5 $75.00. (Hardcover)

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, March 2016, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  42. Apes and Human Evolution. Edited by Russel H. Tuttle. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: Harvard University Press. 2014. 1056 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-07316-6. $59.95 (Hardcover)

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, March 2016, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  43. PlanetWithoutApes. By Craig Stanford. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2014. 272 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-41684-0. $16.95 (Paper).

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, September 2015, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  44. The Myth of Race. The troubling persistence of an unscientific idea. By Robert WaldSussman. Cambridge, MA: Harvard university press. 2014. 384 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-41731-1. $35.00 (hardcover: alk. paper)

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, April 2015, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott, Dr BRIDGET F.B. ALGEE-HEWITT

  45. The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 21, 1873. Edited by FrederickBurkhardt, James A.Secord, JanetBrowne, SamanthaEvans, ShelleyInnes, FrancisNeary, Alison M.Pearn, AnneSecord, and PaulWhite. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2014. 784 pp. IS

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, April 2015, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  46. Engineering and Forensic Entomology

    Article • March 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  47. Sexual Dimorphism in Auricular Surface Projection and Postauricular Sulcus Morphology

    Article • Journal of Forensic Sciences, February 2015, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  48. Bioarchaeological and Forensic Perspectives on Violence: How Violent Death is Interpreted from Skeletal Remains. Edited by DLMartin and COAnderson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2014. 329 pp. ISBN 1-10704-544-4. $99.00 (hardcover) .

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, February 2015, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  49. Encyclopedia ofCaribbeanArcheology. Edited by Basil A.Reid and R. GrantGilmore, III. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. 2014. 383 pp. ISBN-978-0-8130-4420-0

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, December 2014, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  50. Effect of obesity on the reliability of age-at-death indicators of the pelvis

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, December 2014, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  51. Extension of the Fuzzy Integral for General Fuzzy Set-Valued Information

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, December 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  52. Identifying andInterpretingAnimalBones, by April M. Beisaw. College Station, TX: Texas AS&M Press. 2013. 179 pp. ISBN978-1-62349-026-3. $35.00 (flexbound)

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, November 2014, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  53. The Politics of Species: Reshaping Our Relationships with Other Animals. Edited by Raymond Corbey and Annette Lanjouw. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2013. xiv + 295 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-03260-6. $99.00 (cloth).

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, October 2014, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  54. Size and Shape Differences in the Distal Femur and Proximal Tibia between Normal Weight and Obese American Whites

    Article • Journal of Forensic Sciences, October 2014, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  55. Temporal trends in femoral diaphyseal torsional asymmetry among the Arikara associated with postural behavior

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, May 2014, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  56. The Relationship Between Femur Shape and Terrestrial Mobility Patterns

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  57. Biomechanics of Bone Trauma

    Article • January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  58. Sugeno fuzzy integral generalizations for Sub-normal Fuzzy set-valued inputs

    Article • June 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  59. Book review

    Article • American Journal of Human Biology, August 2011, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  60. Linguistic description of adult skeletal age-at-death estimations from fuzzy integral acquired fuzzy sets

    Article • June 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  61. Exploring the Relationships among Epistemological Beliefs, Nature of Science, and Conceptual Change in the Learning of Evolutionary Theory

    Article • Evolution Education and Outreach, March 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  62. Book review

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, March 2011, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  63. Just how strapping was KNM-WT 15000?

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, November 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Robert C McCarthy, Dr Daniel J Wescott

  64. A Fisk patent metallic burial case from Western Missouri: an interdisciplinary and comprehensive effort to reconstruct the history of an early settler of Lexington, Missouri

    Article • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, August 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  65. Estimation of adult skeletal age‐at‐death using the Sugeno fuzzy integral

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, October 2009, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  66. Still More “Fancy” and “Myth” than “Fact” in Students’ Conceptions of Evolution

    Article • Evolution Education and Outreach, March 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  67. Testing assumptions of the Gilbert and Gill method for assessing ancestry using the femur subtrochanteric shape

    Article • HOMO, December 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  68. Estimating the Timing of Long Bone Fractures: Correlation Between the Postmortem Interval, Bone Moisture Content, and Blunt Force Trauma Fracture Characteristics*

    Article • Journal of Forensic Sciences, August 2008, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  69. Biomechanical Analysis of Humeral and Femoral Structural Variation in the Great Plains

    Article • Plains Anthropologist, August 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  70. Estimation and Evidence in Forensic Anthropology: Age-at-Death

    Article • Journal of Forensic Sciences, May 2008, Wiley

    Professor Lyle W. Konigsberg, Dr Daniel J Wescott

  71. Stature Estimation Based on Dimensions of the Bony Pelvis and Proximal Femur*

    Article • Journal of Forensic Sciences, January 2008, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  72. Ontogeny of Femur Subtrochanteric Shape in Native Americans and American Blacks and Whites*

    Article • Journal of Forensic Sciences, October 2006, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  73. Temporal changes in Arikara humeral and femoral cross-sectional geometry associated with horticultural intensification

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, July 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  74. Effect of mobility on femur midshaft external shape and robusticity

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, June 2006, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  75. Population Variation in Femur Subtrochanteric Shape

    Article • Journal of Forensic Sciences, January 2005, ASTM International

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  76. Within-group human variation in the Asian Pleistocene: the three Upper Cave crania

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, May 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  77. Book reviews

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, January 2002, Wiley

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  78. Correspondence

    Article • Journal of Forensic Sciences, March 2001, ASTM International

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  79. Sex Variation in the Second Cervical Vertebra

    Article • Journal of Forensic Sciences, March 2000, ASTM International

    Dr Daniel J Wescott

  80. Assessing Craniofacial Secular Change in American Blacks and Whites Using Geometric Morphometry

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Daniel J Wescott