Funerary taphonomy: An overview of goals and methods

CJ Knüsel, J Robb - Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
Funerary taphonomy has come of age as an important field in osteoarchaeology. Its goal is
to reconstruct funerary practices by using taphonomic evidence, including both evidence …

The smell of death. State-of-the-art and future research directions

J Cieśla, J Skrobisz, B Niciński, M Kloc… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The decomposition of a body is inseparably associated with the release of several types of
odors. This phenomenon has been used in the training of sniffer dogs for decades. The odor …

Forensic proteomics for the evaluation of the post-mortem decay in bones

N Procopio, A Williams, AT Chamberlain… - Journal of proteomics, 2018 - Elsevier
Current methods for evaluation the of post-mortem interval (PMI) of skeletal remains suffer
from poor accuracy due to the great number of variables that affect the diagenetic process …

Insights into the differential preservation of bone proteomes in inhumed and entombed cadavers from Italian forensic caseworks

A Bonicelli, A Di Nunzio, C Di Nunzio… - Journal of Proteome …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Bone is a hard biological tissue and a precious reservoir of information in forensic
investigations as it retains key biomolecules commonly used for identification purposes …

Child murder in the Early Bronze Age: proteomic sex identification of a cold case from Schleinbach, Austria

K Rebay-Salisbury, L Janker, D Pany-Kucera… - Archaeological and …, 2020 - Springer
The identification of sex-specific peptides in human tooth enamel by nanoflow liquid
chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (nanoLC-MS/MS) represents a quantum leap …

Forensic anthropology as a discipline

NV Passalacqua, MA Pilloud, D Congram - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Forensic anthropology in the United States is a specialization within the
overall field of anthropology. Forensic anthropologists are specially educated and trained to …

Analysis and interpretation of trauma in skeletal remains

NC Lovell, AL Grauer - Biological anthropology of the human …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Trauma is one of the most commonly observed pathological conditions in human skeletal
remains. The objectives of trauma analysis include the identification and description of …

[HTML][HTML] Forensic experiments on animal scavenging: A systematic literature review on what we have and what we need

L Indra, S Lösch, D Errickson, D Finaughty - Forensic science international, 2023 - Elsevier
Vertebrate scavengers frequently affect forensic casework by feeding on human remains or
by scattering body parts and bones. Therefore, animal activity can influence complete …

Investigation of Early Death-Induced Changes in Rat Brain by Solid Phase Microextraction via Untargeted High Resolution Mass Spectrometry: In Vivo versus …

S Lendor, M Olkowicz, E Boyaci, M Yu… - ACS Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Analysis of brain samples obtained postmortem remains a standard approach in
neuroscience, despite often being suboptimal for inferring roles of small molecules in the …

Emergence of corpse cremation during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Southern Levant: A multidisciplinary study of a pyre-pit burial

F Bocquentin, M Anton, F Berna, A Rosen, H Khalaily… - PLOS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Renewed excavations at the Neolithic site of Beisamoun (Upper Jordan Valley, Israel) has
resulted in the discovery of the earliest occurrence of an intentional cremation in the Near …