Forensic anthropologists are frequently confronted with the need to interpret burnt bone.
Regardless of the context, one of the key factors for the correct interpretation of the remains …

Human-made and natural disasters can result in severely fragmented, compromised, and
commingled human remains. The related disaster victim identification (DVI) operations are …

Few taphonomic alterations to bone are as destructive, rapid, predictable, and common in
forensic settings as the combustion of fleshed bodies or isolated remains. In this chapter, we …

After the publication of the first article in 2014, 21st Century Identified Skeletal Collection,
housed in the Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology, Department of Life Sciences at the …

The uses and functions of fire in early human adaptations are commonly debated and at
times very controversial topics. It is important to recognize under what circumstances and …

One of the biggest struggles of biological anthropology is to estimate the biological profile
from burned human skeletal remains. Bioanthropological methods are seriously …

Skeletal human remains presenting heat-induced changes have been a focus of study for a
long time. However, there is still a long way to go for the anthropologists to be able to fully …

Although the occurrence of burned bones in the archeological record has been widely
investigated, very few studies have focused on the distinction of temporality in burned bones …

This study investigates the use of Scanning electron microscopy–energy‐dispersive X‐ray
(SEM‐EDX) as a diagnostic tool for the determination of the osseous origin of samples …

Complementary optical and neutron-based vibrational spectroscopy techniques (Infrared,
Raman and inelastic neutron scattering) were applied to the study of human bones (femur …