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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schmidt, Christopher W
• Symes, Steve A

Titel

The analysis of burned human remains [electronic resource]

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2nd ed

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• Elsevier Books AutoHoldings

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• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Front Cover; The Analysis of Burned Human Remains; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1 Fire and Bodies; A FIRE PRIMER; ROOM FIRES; EFFECTS; CASE STUDIES; CONCLUSIONS; LITERATURE CITED; Chapter 2 Patterned Thermal Destruction of Human Remains in a Forensic Setting; INTRODUCTION TO BURNED BONE RESEARCH; RESEARCH APPROACHES: SAME PROBLEM, DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES; FORENSIC PRACTICE AND PERSPECTIVE; FORENSIC IMPLICATIONS: PROBLEMS AND GOALS; SUMMARY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 3 The Recovery and Study of Burned Human Teeth; INTRODUCTION
• PURPOSE AND CAVEATSFIELD RECOVERY; THERMALLY INDUCED CHANGES IN COLOR, TEXTURE, AND SIZE; DENTAL RESTORATIONS AND ORTHODONTICS; CASE STUDY: BAUMEISTER HOMICIDES; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; LITERATURE CITED; Chapter 4 Analysis of Human Cremains: Gross and Chemical Methods; INTRODUCTION; CREMATION PROCESS; METHODS USED TO ANALYZE CREMAINS; CHEMICAL METHODS; FORENSIC CASE STUDY USING ICP-MS; CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 5 Thermally Induced Changes in the Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Ratios of Charred Bones; INTRODUCTION
• BONE CHARRING AND ITS EFFECT ON THE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION OF BONE ORGANIC MATERIALCONTROLLED HEATING EXPERIMENTS TO EVALUATE ISOTOPIC CHANGES IN CHARRED BONES; EVALUATING PREHISTORIC CREMATIONS; RESULTS; DISCUSSION; CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 6 Bone Color as an Interpretive Tool of the Depositional History of Archaeological Cremains; INTRODUCTION; BURNED BONE RESEARCH; BONE COLOR; COLOR MODELS; WALKER-NOE 15GD56; WALKER-NOE 15GD56 CREMAINS; RESULTS; DISCUSSION; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES
• Chapter 7 Time, Temperature, and Oxygen Availability: An Experimental Study of the Effects of Environmental Conditions on the Color and Organic Content ofINTRODUCTION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; BONE COLOR AND THE CREMATION ENVIRONMENT; DURATION OF CREMATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COLLAGEN ANALYSIS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 8 Heat-Related Changes in Tooth Color: Temperature Versus Duration of Exposure; INTRODUCTION; MATERIALS AND METHOD; RESULTS; DISCUSSION; CONCLUSION; LITERATURE CITED
• Chapter 9 Investigations on Pre-Roman and Roman Cremation Remains from Southwestern Germany: Results, Potentialities and LimitsINTRODUCTION; SKELETAL REMAINS; METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS; ANTHROPOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION; CONCLUDING REMARKS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 10 In the Heat of the Pyre: Efficiency of Oxidation in Romano-British Cremations - Did it Really Matter?; INTRODUCTION; THE CREMATION PROCESS; CREMATION IN ROMAN BRITAIN; VARIATIONS IN OXIDATION; CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES
• Chapter 11 Fire as a Cultural Taphonomic Agent: Understanding Mortuary Behavior at Khuzhir-Nuge XIV, Siberia
• 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 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 looking at the recent or ancient dead.* I
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