Citation

Tucker BK, Hutchinson DL, Gilliland MF, Charles TM, Daniel HJ, Wolfe LD. J. Forensic Sci. 2001; 46(2): 234-240.

Affiliation

Department of Anthropology and Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, American Society for Testing and Materials, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11305424

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine if it is possible to associate machetes, axes, and cleavers with the microscopic parallel striations they leave on the cut surfaces of the bone. Hacking trauma was experimentally inflicted on pig bones using machetes, axes, and cleavers. Negative impressions of both the cut surfaces of the bone and the weapon blades were analyzed using scanning electron microscopy. The results of this investigation indicate that it is possible to correlate a class of hacking weapons to trauma inflicted on bone by these weapons.

Language: en