The Analysis of Burned Human Remains
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The Analysis of Burned Human Remains

  1. 448 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Analysis of Burned Human Remains

About this book

The Analysis of Burned Human Remains, Second Edition, provides a primary source for osteologists and the medical/legal community for the understanding of burned bone remains in forensic or archaeological contexts. It describes in detail the changes in human bone and soft tissues as a body burns at both the chemical and gross levels and provides an overview of the current procedures in burned bone study. Case studies in forensic and archaeological settings aid those interested in the analysis of burned human bodies, from death scene investigators to biological anthropologists. - A timely state-of-the-art analyses of burned bone studies for bioarchaeologists and forensic anthropologists - Covers the diagnostic patterning of color changes, the positioning of the body, and presence (or absence of soft tissues during the burning event - Chapters on bones and teeth give step-by-step recommendations for hot to study and recognize burned hard tissues - New chapters include improved analyses of thermally induced impacts on bone microstructure, development, and appearance; they also cover sites from a greater geographic range adding Alaska, Italy, Jordan, Mexico, and Southeast Asia

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Yes, you can access The Analysis of Burned Human Remains by Christopher W. Schmidt,Steven A. Symes in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Forensic Science. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Academic Press
Year
2015
eBook ISBN
9780128005217
Edition
2
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Forensic Science
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover image
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Copyright
  5. List of Contributors
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter 1. Fire and Bodies
  8. Chapter 2. Patterned Thermal Destruction in a Forensic Setting
  9. Chapter 3. Burned Human Teeth
  10. Chapter 4. Analysis of Human Cremains
  11. Chapter 5. Thermally Induced Changes
  12. Chapter 6. Bone Colour
  13. Chapter 7. Heat-Related Changes in Tooth Color
  14. Chapter 8. Herculaneum
  15. Chapter 9. Investigations on Pre-Roman and Roman Cremation Remains
  16. Chapter 10. In the Heat of the Pyre
  17. Chapter 11. Fire as a Cultural Taphonomic Agent
  18. Chapter 12. Putting Together the Pieces: Reconstructing Mortuary Practices from Commingled Ossuary Cremains
  19. Chapter 13. A Taphonomic Analysis of Human Cremains from the Fox Hollow Farm Serial Homicide Site
  20. Chapter 14. Early Archaic Cremations from Southern Indiana
  21. Chapter 15. Towards an Archaeology of Cremation
  22. Chapter 16. An 11,500-Year-Old Human Cremation from Eastern Beringia (Central Alaska)
  23. Chapter 17. Italian Iron Age Cremations
  24. Chapter 18. The Analysis of Heat-Induced Crystallinity Change in Bone
  25. Chapter 19. Death and Community Identity in the Trincheras Cremation Cemetery, Sonora, Mexico
  26. Chapter 20. Formation Times in Thermally Altered Enamel
  27. Chapter 21. Influence of Heating Regimes on Dimensional and Colorimetric Changes of Teeth
  28. Chapter 22. The Use of Ethnographic Information in Cremation Studies: A Southeast Asian Example
  29. Chapter 23. Bone Color Changes in a Burned Burial Structure from Early Bronze Age Bab adh-Dhra’, Jordan
  30. Index