1. Bone remodeling, histomorphology, and histomorphometry / Sam Stout and Christian Crowder -- 2. Growth and development : morphology, mechanisms, and abnormalities / James H. Gosman -- 3. Making the mold : a microstructural perspective on bone modeling during growth and mechanical adaptation / Corey M. Maggiano -- 4. Histological features of dental hard tissues and their utility in forensic anthropology / Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg and Michaela Huffman -- 5. Differentiating human from nonhuman bone microstructure / Dawn M. Mulhern and Douglas H. Ubelaker -- 6. Histological age-at-death estimation / Margaret Streeter -- 7. Interpreting load history in limb-bone diaphyses : important considerations and their biomechanical foundations / John G. Skedros -- 8. Bone fracture : biomechanics and risk / Amanda M. Agnew and John H. Bolte IV -- 9. Histotaphonomy / Lynne S. Bell -- 10. Light microscopic analysis of macerated pathologically changed bones / Michael Schultz -- 11. Histological analyses of human bone from archaeological contexts / Susan Pfeiffer and Deborrah Pinto -- 12. Bone histology collections of the National Museum of Health and Medicine / Brian F. Spatola, Franklin E. Damann, and Bruce D. Ragsdale -- 13. The Melbourne femur collection : how a forensic and anthropological collection came to have broader applications / C. David L. Thomas and John G. Clement -- 14. The histology laboratory and principles of microscope instrumentation / Helen Cho -- 15. Technological developments in the analysis of cortical bone histology : the third dimension and its potential in anthropology / David M.L. Cooper, C. David L. Thomas, and John G. Clement.