Bone natural autofluorescence and confocal laser scanning microscopy: preliminary results of a novel useful tool to distinguish between forensic and ancient human skeletal remains

The analysis of skeletal remains is a highly specialized field in the medico-legal science. A forensic anthropologist is usually tasked with determining the biological profile of skeletal remains (e.g., ancestry, sex, age and stature) that have been identified as human. Morphometrical features of bones and teeth can help to answer these questions [1–3]. A more difficult parameter to estimate is the time since death (TSD). As quoted from Nagy et al. [4], “dating human skeletal remains is one of the most important and yet unreliable aspects of forensic medicine.

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