The Analysis of Burned Human Remains 1st Edition by Christopher Schmidt,Steven Symes,Schmidt 9780123725103 0123725100

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 CAVEATS

FIELD 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 Bone

INTRODUCTION

BONE CHARRING AND ITS EFFECT ON THE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION OF BONE ORGANIC MATERIAL

CONTROLLED 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 Enviro

INTRODUCTION

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

INTRODUCTION

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

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,

INTRODUCTION

METHODS

RESULTS

CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

Chapter 12 Putting Together the Pieces: Reconstructing Mortuary Practices from Commingled Ossuary Cr

INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND

METHODS OF ANALYSIS

RESULTS

MORTUARY BEHAVIOR RECONSTRUCTED

REFERENCES

Chapter 13 A Taphonomic Analysis of Human Cremains from the Fox Hollow Farm Serial Homicide Site

INTRODUCTION

THE STUDY SAMPLE

SCORING METHODS

RESULTS

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

REFERENCES

Chapter 14 Early Archaic Cremations from Southern Indiana

INTRODUCTION

OSTEOLOGY

MORTUARY TREATMENT

DISCUSSION

CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

Chapter 15 Towards an Archaeology of Cremation

INTRODUCTION

THE PERCEPTION OF CREMATION

THEMES IN THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF CREMATION

THEORETICAL APPROACHES FOR THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF CREMATION

CASE STUDY: A LATE IRON-AGE CREMATION CEMETERY NEAR WESTHAMPNETT, SUSSEX

CONCLUSION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS