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Showing 1 to 20 of 117 for “"Human remains"”.
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Differential Decomposition Rates of Refuse Covered Human Remains
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Towards a multidisciplinary practice for human remains: the conservation, collection, and display of human remains and objects made from them.©
Towards a multidisciplinary practice for human remains: the conservation, collection, and display of human remains and objects made from them. This research discussion examines the breadth and complexity of a unique strand of museum collections, artefacts that often cross boundaries of …
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HUMAN REMAINS IN MUSEUMS AND INSTITUTIONS: LAWS AND POLICIES
<p>Human remains are a unique type of archaeological artifact because of the emotional and cultural ties to living descendants that can still affect the living today. Museums have acquired sets of human remains over the decades by various means like purchases, donations, and grave robbing. The …
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A Multi-Method Approach to Re-associating Fragmented and Commingled Human Remains
The fragmentation and commingling of ancient human remains, particularly those from disturbed contexts, poses great difficulties to the applicability of bioarcheological and forensic anthropological methods. Depending on the extent of fragmentation, human remains from disturbed contexts are often …
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Home from Away: Challenging Extinction Discourse through the Repatriation of Indigenous Beothuk Human Remains
… extinction takes place within parts of the human species rather than extinction of the species) has largely been applied uncritically and unquestioningly to such peoples. Literature on “extinct” peoples like the Beothuk comes to be defined by this categorisation and limited by it. This …
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Sex estimation of unidentified human remains: Concordance between morphological anthropological assessment and DNA analysis
Identifying skeletonised human remains is a challenge worldwide, and sex determination is an important part of the process. Recently in Cape Town, there have been two medico-legal death investigations involving unidentified skeletonised remains who were estimated to be female anthropologically but …
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Analysis of the volatile organic compounds produced by the decomposition of pig carcasses and human remains
… responsible for the odour of decomposition. Human remains detection (HRD) canines utilize this odour signature to locate human remains during police investigations and recovery missions in the event of a mass disaster. Currently, it is unknown which compounds or combinations of compounds are …
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The Digital Dead: Virtual Modelling of Human Remains using Photogrammetry for Presentation and Preservation by Record.
… as an active research tool in the study of human remains. The creation of 3D models from overlapping images, Structure-from-Motion Multi-view Stereo photogrammetry, offers a fast, accessible analysis method which reduces risk of damaging the remains. The current study set out to investigate …
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Human provenancing - combined isotopic and genetic profiling of limited bone and teeth material of ancient human remains
… is still the most effective approach for human identification. Despite the success story of DNA profiling, there is a constant search for additional methods to aid in the identification of human remains. In recent years increasingly strontium and lead isotopes analysis have proved …
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The importance of a protocol in the recovery and handling of burned human remains in a forensic context
… used to recover, handle, and transport remains, and the availability and utilisation of resources. The affect these methodologies had on the condition of the remains between scene and autopsy was assessed. In total 32 fire-related death scenes were attended, with 48 decedents recovered. …
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Black River Cemetery: An anthropological study of the human remains exhumed from a historic Cape Town burial ground
… allowed for the analysis of the exhumed skeletal remains. The outcome of the skeletal analysis is valuable as the lives documented on the skeleton of a past group of people can write the story of individuals and communities that may have otherwise been omitted from the history books. The aim of …
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Maize and Bone: An Evaluation and Expansion of a Proposed Model for the Differential Diagnosis of Pellagra in Human Remains
… a differential diagnosis of pellagra in human remains (Paine & Brenton, 2006a). Seven individuals with documented pellagra and nine individuals randomly selected for comparison from the Hamann-Todd Osteological Collection were evaluated for caries, alveolar bone loss, periostitis, …
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Combining forensic anthropological and geological approaches to investigate the preservation of human remains in British archaeological populations and their effects on palaeodemography
… has been no research into the degradation of the human skeleton, with many projects focussing only on the soft tissue decomposition rates and factors. Using a combination of techniques from forensic anthropology and geology, the collections were analysed using traditional palaeodemographic life …
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The effects of lime on the decomposition of buried human remains. A field and laboratory based study for forensic and archaeological application.
… in Belgium and the UK involving the search for human remains buried with lime, have demonstrated the need for a more detailed understanding of the effect of different types of lime on cadaver decomposition and its micro-environment. Field and laboratory experiments using pigs as human body …
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Retrospective analysis of the utilisation of DNA analyses in the identification of human remains at Salt River Mortuary (Cape Town, South Africa)
Post-mortem human identification is crucial for medico-legal investigations and for social justice. Unfortunately, many people remain unidentified, particularly in developing countries. The use of forensic DNA profiling is a reliable method for human identification and was legislated in South …
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The analysis of the entomological and chemical decomposition of human remains to ultimately assess the viability of the domestic pig as a substitute in forensic applications
… in Canada are not based on research involving humans but rather on a human substitute, the domestic pig. However, now that facilities for human decomposition research are opening, we are faced with the prospect that pigs may not be so similar to humans as originally thought. The purpose of this …
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