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

Infrared (IR) spectroscopy has emerged as one of the most powerful analytical tools
available to archaeologists. It has been used to document site formation processes and …

The Archaeology of Human Bones provides an up to date account of the analysis of human
skeletal remains from archaeological sites, introducing students to the anatomy of bones …

A guide to the systematic understanding of the geoarchaeological matrix Reconstructing
Archaeological Sites offers an important text that puts the focus on basic theoretical and …

Chemical and structural analysis of archaeological bioapatite requires well-preserved
unaltered mineral. Attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR …

RATIONALE Strontium isotopes (87Sr/86Sr) are used in archaeological and forensic
science as markers of residence or mobility because they reflect the local geological …

Complementary vibrational spectroscopic techniques–infrared, Raman and inelastic neutron
scattering (INS)–were applied to the study of human bone burned under controlled …

Cremated human remains from Stonehenge provide direct evidence on the life of those few
select individuals buried at this iconic Neolithic monument. The practice of cremation has …

In order to gain insight into the timing and nature of hominin fire use, the effect of heat on the
physical and chemical properties of the materials entering the archaeological record needs …

A large variety of bioapatite pre-treatments are found in the literature for a wide range of
applications going from mineralogy to diagenesis. Additionally, stable carbon and oxygen …