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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Schmidt, Christopher W., Symes, Steve A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston ; London : Elsevier/Academic, 2008.
Edición:1st ed.
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 l�egale.
Restes humains (Arch�eologie)
M�edecine > Laboratoires > Technique.
Pompes fun�ebres.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
Undertakers and undertaking
Medical laboratory technology
Burns and scalds > Research
Forensic anthropology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Fire and bodies / John D. Dehaan
  • Ch. 2 Patterned Thermal Destruction of Human remains in a Forensic Setting / Andrea L. Piper / Desina Rachael Gipson / Erin N. Chapman / Christopher W. Rainwater / Steven A. Symes
  • Ch. 3 Recovery and Study of Burned Human Teeth / Christopher W. Schmidt
  • Ch. 4 Analysis of Human Cremains: Gross and Chemical Methods / John J. Schultz / Michael W. Warren / John S. Krigbaum
  • Ch. 5 Thermally Induced Changes in the Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Ratios of Charred Bones / Della C. Cook / Mark R. Schurr / Robert G. Hayes
  • Ch. 6 Bone Color as an Interpretive Tool of the Depositional History of Archaeological Cremains / Nicholas P. Herrmann / Joanne B. Devlin
  • Ch. 7 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 / Rebecca Richman
  • Ch. 8 Heat-Related Changes in Tooth Color: Temperature Versus Duration of Exposure / Erin N. Chapman / Jeremy J. Beach / Nicholas V. Passalacqua
  • Ch. 9 Investigations on Pre-Roman and Roman Cremation Remains from Southwestern Germany: Results, Potentialities and Limits / Joachim Wahl
  • Ch. 10 In the Heat of the Pyre: Efficiency of Oxidation in Romano-British Cremations
  • Did it Really Matter? / Jacqueline I. McKinley
  • Ch. 11 Fire as a Cultural Taphonomic Agent: Understanding Mortuary Behavior at Khuzhir-Nuge XIV, Siberia / Misty A. Weitzel / Hugh G. McKenzie
  • Ch. 12 Putting Together the Pieces: Reconstructing Mortuary Practices from Commingled Ossuary Cremains / A. Joanne Curtin
  • Ch. 13 Taphonomic Analysis of Human Cremains from the Fox Hollow Farm Serial Homicide Site / Stephen P. Nawrocki / Amanda Baker Bontrager
  • Note continued: Ch. 14 Early Archaic Cremations from Southern Indiana / Christopher W. Schmidt / Curtis Tomak / Tammy R. Greene / Rachel A. Lockhart / Gregory A. Reinhardt
  • Ch. 15 Towards an Archaeology of Cremation / Howard Williams.

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