Schmidt Christopher W., Symes Steven A. (eds.) The Analysis of Burned Human Remains

2nd edition. — Elsevier, 2015. — 416 p. — ISBN 978-0-12-800451-7.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 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.Fire and Bodies
Patterned Thermal Destruction in a Forensic Setting
Burned Human Teeth
Analysis of Human Cremains
Thermally Induced Changes
Bone Colour
Heat-Related Changes in Tooth Color
Herculaneum
Investigations on Pre-Roman and Roman Cremation Remains
In the Heat of the Pyre
Fire as a Cultural Taphonomic Agent
A Taphonomic Analysis of Human Cremains from the Fox Hollow Farm Serial Homicide Site
Early Archaic Cremations from Southern Indiana
Towards an Archaeology of Cremation
An 11,500-Year-Old Human Cremation from Eastern Beringia (Central Alaska)
Italian Iron Age Cremations
The Analysis of Heat-Induced Crystallinity Change in Bone
Death and Community Identity in the Trincheras Cremation Cemetery, Sonora, Mexico
Formation Times in Thermally Altered Enamel
Influence of Heating Regimes on Dimensional and Colorimetric Changes of Teeth
The Use of Ethnographic Information in Cremation Studies: A Southeast Asian Example
Bone Color Changes in a Burned Burial Structure from Early Bronze Age Bab adh-Dhra’, Jordan