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  • 6 - Law, technology and the criminal justice system

  • Marcus Smith, Gregor Urbas, Australian National University, Canberra
  • Book:
    Technology Law
    Published online:
    21 April 2021
    Print publication:
    08 April 2021, pp 111-139

  • Summary

    For over a century, the field of forensic science has been applying contemporary technology to the investigation of crime. The imperative to identify offenders, particularly in relation to serious offences, has meant that governments are willing to invest in new technologies to achieve this objective. Fingerprinting, first developed in the late 19th century to identify individuals based on the unique patterns on the fingertips, led the way as one of the earliest means of identifying people, and is still used today in a digitised format.

  • Part IV - Community and social life

  • Edited by N. J. Enfield, Paul Kockelman, Yale University, Connecticut, Jack Sidnell, University of Toronto
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology
    Published online:
    05 October 2014
    Print publication:
    11 September 2014, pp 481-598

  • Summary

    This chapter discusses the evolution of the ideas that connect linguistics with the modeling of prehistory and focuses on particular topics to illustrate the practical working out of their interactions. It begins with some of the contrasting opinions about the relationships between linguistics and archaeology, and in particular the negative views of some archaeologists. The chapter explores some of the main topics that have been the subject of debate, in particular claims about numerical classification of languages and the processes of language diversification. It considers the genesis of writing, for which there is considerable epigraphic evidence but which can also be documented ethnographically and the evolution of gender registers, something clearly present in Sumerian but also the subject of contemporary descriptions. The chapter takes on one of the most controversial issues, the proposed synthesis of linguistics, archaeology, and DNA evidence to generate new hypotheses about prehistory.