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Title The analysis of burned human remains / edited by Christopher Schmidt, Department of Anthropology, Indiana Prehistory Laboratory, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, USA and Steven Symes, Department of Applied Forensic Sciences, Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA, USA.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Elsevier/Academic Press, 2015.
©2015

Item Status

Edition Second edition.
Description 1 online resource : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series ATLAS OF SURGICAL PATHOLOGY
ATLAS OF SURGICAL PATHOLOGY.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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. * Includes the diagnostic patterning of color changes that give insight to the severity of burning, the positioning of the body, and presence (or absence) of soft tissues during the burning event * Chapters on bones and teeth give step-by-step recommendations for how to study and recognize burned hard tissues.
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Subject Forensic anthropology.
Forensic anthropology.
Human remains (Archaeology)
Human remains (Archaeology)
Burns and scalds -- Research.
Burns and scalds -- Research.
MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Schmidt, Christopher W., editor.
Symes, Steven, 1978- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Schmidt, Christopher. Analysis of burned human remains. 2nd revised edition. [Place of publication not identified] : Elsevier Academic Press, 2015 0128004517 (OCoLC)906010470
ISBN 9780128005217 (electronic book)
0128005211 (electronic book)
9780128004517
0128004517