Forensic Archaeology The Anthropological Approach in the Retrieval and Recognition of Criminal Matters

Increase in global violence such as war and genocide from the end of the nineteenth century has encouraged many scientists to do studies about human suffering. For this purpose, archaeologists were trying to use their expertise to retrieving of material evidence relating to past human substrates and reading them. Thus, archeologists are those who exploring the mass graves and recognizing the criminal background. But, in Iran, the importance of this sub-discipline of contemporary archeology have been neglected so far. So, in our piece in addition to introducing this field of archaeology by investigating the activities and interviews with experts who have an influential role in the mater and use of this scientific approach to identify and resolve crimes, we tried to create a new conception of contemporary archeology in solving human problems and how and why we should use it in our community. In this regard, archaeologists by using their capabilities in the field of precision retrieval of violence have been able to resolve the existing criminal cases and offer an archaeological definition of the crime.