The analysis of burned human remains. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Christopher Schmidt and Steven Symes.
• Editors: Schmidt, Christopher W; Symes, Steve A
• Contents: 1. Fire and Bodies; 2. Patterned Thermal Destruction in a Forensic Setting; 3. Burned Human Teeth; 4. Analysis of Human Cremains; 5. Thermally Induced Changes ; 6. Bone Color; 7. Time, Temperature and Oxygen Availability; 8. Heat-Related Changes in Tooth Color; 9. Investigations on Pre-Roman and Roman Cremation Remains; 10. In the Heat of Pyre; 11. Fire as a Cultural Taphonomic Agent; 12. Putting Together the Pieces: Reconstructing Mortuary Practices from Commingled Ossuary Cremains; 13. A Taphonomic Analysis of Human Cremains from the Fox Hollow Farm Serial Homicide Site; 14. Early Archaic Cremations from Southern Indiana; 15. Towards an Archaeology of Cremation; 16. An 11, 500-year old Human Cremation from Eastern Beringia (Central Alaska); 17. Italian Iron Age cremations; 18. The analysis of heat-induced crystallinity change in bone; 19. Death and Community Identity in the Trincheras Cremation Cemetery, Sonora, Mexico; 20. Formation times in thermally altered enamel; 21. Influence of heating regimes on dimensional and colorimetric changes of teeth; 22. The Use Of Ethnographic Information In Cremation Studies: A Southeast Asian Example; 23. Bone Color Changes in a Burned Burial Structure from Early Bronze Age Bab adh-Dhra', Jordan
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: Amsterdam : Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 614.17; Forensic anthropology; Human remains (Archaeology); Burns and scalds -- Research
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780128005217
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