The analysis of burned human remains /

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This unique reference provides a primary source for osteologists and the medical/legal commumity 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 level...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Schmidt, Christopher W. (Editor ), Symes, Steven, 1978- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Elsevier/Academic Press, 2015.
Edición:Second edition.
Colección:ATLAS OF SURGICAL PATHOLOGY.
Temas:
Forensic anthropology.
Human remains (Archaeology)
Burns and scalds > Research.
Medical laboratory technology.
Undertakers and undertaking.
Forensic Anthropology
Forensic Pathology > methods
Burns > pathology
Clinical Laboratory Techniques
Mortuary Practice
Anthropologie légale.
Restes humains (Archéologie)
Médecine > Laboratoires > Technique.
Pompes funèbres.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Fire and bodies / John D. DeHaan
  • Patterned thermal destruction of human remains in a forensic setting / Steven A. Symes [and others]
  • The recovery and study of burned human teeth / Christopher W. Schmidt
  • Analysis of human cremains: gross and chemical methods / John J. Schultz, Michael W. Warren, and John S. Krigbaum
  • Thermally induced changes in the stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of charred bones / Mark R. Schurr, Robert G. Hayes, and Della C. Cook
  • Bone color as an interpretive tool of the despoitional history of archaeological cremains / Joanne B. Devlin and Nicholas P. Herrmann
  • Time, temperature, and oxygen availability: an experimental study of the effects of environmental conditions on the color and organic content of cremated bone / Phillip L. Walker, Kevin W.P. Miller, and rebecca Richman
  • Heat-related changes in tooth color: temperature versus duration of exposure / Jeremy J. Beach, Nicholas V. Passalacqua, and Erin N. Chapman
  • Investigations on pre-Roman and roman cremation remains from southwestern Germany: results, potentialities and limits / Joachim Wahl
  • In the heat of the pyre: efficiency of oxidation in Romano-British creamations--Did it really matter? / Jacqueline I. McKinley
  • Fire as a cultural taphonomic agent: understanding mortuary behavior at Khuzhir-Nuge XIV, Siberia / Misty A. Weitzel and Hugh G. McKenzie
  • Putting together the pieces: reconstructing mortuary practices from commingled ossuary cremains / A. Joanne Curtin
  • A taphonomic analysis of human cremains from the Fox Hollow Farm serial homicide site / Amanda Baker Bontrager and Stephen P. Nawrocki
  • Early archaic cremations from southern Indiana / Christopher W. Schmidt [and others]
  • Towards an archaeology of cremation / Howard Williams.

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