The analysis of burned human remains /

"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...

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Corporate Author:	ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors:	Schmidt, Christopher W. (Editor), Symes, Steven, 1978- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam : Elsevier/Academic Press, 2015.
Edition:	Second edition.
Series:	Atlas Of Surgical Pathology.
Subjects:	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. Undertakers and undertaking Medical laboratory technology Burns and scalds > Research Forensic anthropology Electronic books. Instructional and educational works. Matériel d'éducation et de formation.
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Table of Contents:

Fire and bodies / John D. DeHaan
Patterned thermal destruction in a forensic setting / Steven A. Symes, Christopher W. Rainwater, Erin M. Chapman, Desina R. Gipson, and Andrea L. Piper
Burned human teeth / Christopher W. Schmidt
Analysis of human cremains / John J. Schultz, Michael W. Warren, and John S. Krigbaum
Thermally induced changes / Mark R. Schurr, Robert G. Hayes, and Della C. Cook
Bone colour / Joanne B. Devlin and Nicholas P. Herrmann
Heat-related changes in tooth color / Jeremy J. Beach, Nicholas V. Passalacqua, and Erin N. Chapman
Herculaneum / Christopher W. Schmidt, Elizabeth Oakley, Ruggero D'Anastasio, Rebecca Brower, Ashley Remy, and Joan Viciano
Investigations on pre-Roman and Roman cremation remains / Joachim Wahl
In the heat of the pyre / Jacqueline I. McKinley
Fire as a cultural taphonomic agent / 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 B. Bontrager and Stephen P. Nawrocki
Early archaic cremations from southern Indiana / Christopher W. Schmidt, Curtis Tomak, Rachel A. Lockhart, Tammy R. Greene, and Gregory A. Reinhardt
Towards an archaeology of cremation / Howard Williams
An 11,500-year-old human cremation from Eastern Beringia (Central Alaska) / Joel D. Irish, Ben A. Potter, and Joshua D. Reuther
Italian Iron Age cremations / Simona Minozzi
The analysis of heat-induced crystallinity change in bone / Tim J. U. Thompson
Death and community identity in the Trincheras cremation cemetery, Sonora, Mexico / James T. Watson, Jessica I. Cerezo-Román, Silvia I. N. Maldonado, Carlos C. Guzmán, and M. Elisa Villalpando
Formation times in thermally altered enamel / Patrick Mahoney and Justyna Miszkiewicz
Influence of heating regimes on dimensional and colorimetric changes of teeth / Michael Sandholzer
The use of ethnographic information in cremation studies : a Southeast Asian example / Stacey M. Ward and Nancy Tayles
Bone color changes in a burned burial structure from early Bronze Age Bab adh-Dhra', Jordan / Jaime Ullinger and Susan G. Sheridan.