Review of Crowder, C. & Stout, S. D. (eds.) 2012. Bone Histology: An Anthropological Perspective. Boca Raton: CRC Press

Histological analysis of bone can be a useful tool in the physical anthropologist or archaeologist’s arsenal. Analyses of bone microstructure using conventional light microscopy or scanning electron microscopy can be used for human versus non-human species identification (Hillier and Bell, 2007), analysis of osteogenesis, age-at-death estimation (Crowder, 2005), in-depth analysis of pathological conditions affecting bone (De Boer and Merwe, 2016), in addition to examining taphonomical bone alterations of bone, such as burning (Horocholyn, 2013; Hollund et al., 2012).