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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"skeletal remains"”.
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Age Estimation of Fetal Skeletal Remains from the Forensic Context
… method (Fazekas and Kosa, 1978) of aging fetal remains from the forensic context against ultrasound (Chevernak et al., 1998)and radiographic (Sherwood et al., 2000) methods to determine which was most accurate. Two data sets were used in this study. The first consisted of measurements from …
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Age Estimation of Fetal Skeletal Remains from the Forensic Context
… method (Fazekas and Kosa, 1978) of aging fetal remains from the forensic context against ultrasound (Chevernak et al., 1998)and radiographic (Sherwood et al., 2000) methods to determine which was most accurate. Two data sets were used in this study. The first consisted of measurements from …
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Microbial succession in human rib skeletal remains and fly-human microbial transfer during decomposition
… interval of terrestrially decomposed human skeletal remains using microbial abundance information. This is a significant contribution to the criminal justice system; anthropologists typically use visual evidence to provide postmortem interval estimates of skeletal remains with errors ranging …
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VIRTUAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND COMMINGLED SKELETAL REMAINS. RESOURCES AND POTENTIAL FOR PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION IN HUMANITARIAN FORENSIC CONTEXTS
Commingled skeletal remains represent a compelling topic in forensic anthropology, especially in view of the recent mass disasters in the Mediterranean Sea related to the migration crisis. With over 1,000 alleged victims, and thousands of commingled skeletal remains, the shipwreck of April, 8th, …
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A comparative analysis of human skeletal remains from Parowan Fremont, Virgin Anasazi, and Kayenta Anasazi archaeological sites
Human skeletal remains from the prehistoric Parowan Fremont, Virgin Anasazi, and Kayenta Anasazi cultural traditions are examined, to quantify differences in skeletal parameters and burial practices. Statistical comparisons show no significant differences in skeletal metric traits among the 125 …
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An archaeological, anthropological study of the human skeletal remains from the Oakhurst Rockshelter, George, Cape Province, Southern Africa
… is suggested by the analysis of forty-six skeletal remains from the nonagricultural, marine-dependent population of Oakhurst from the South coast of southern Africa. Porotic hyperostosis and enamel hypoplasiae are just as common among these marine-dependent people as among transitional …
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A forensic anthropological investigation of skeletal remains recovered from a 1000 year old archaeological site in North Western Namibia
Human and faunal skeletal remains were found scattered around the base of a talus cone at the bottom of a 30 metre sinkhole at Khoraxa-ams northwest of the Central Namib Desert. Subsequent dating of the site indicated that the remains had been deposited in the cavern in the order of a thousand …
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The re-examination of extant human skeletal remains from excavated earlier neolithic long barrows and chambered tombs in southern Britain
… of previously excavated Earlier Neolithic human remains from Southern Britain. These form the subject of a Synoptic Overview. The Synoptic Overview places the papers within the context of academic debate and knowledge as it stood in the mid 1980s and 1990s. The background events surrounding the …
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An Investigation of patterns of mammalian scavenging in relation to vertebrate skeletal remains in a Northwestern European context: forensic applications.
… disarticulating, scattering and removal of human remains can alter and obscure both soft tissue and skeletal remains which are essential to making interpretations and identifications during forensic investigations. The effects of scavenging vary between regions, environments, scavenger species, …
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Mysteries of the Dead: A Taphonomic Analysis of the Skeletal Remains from the Peruvian Highland Sites of Marcahuamachuco and Cerro Amaru
This thesis examines the taphonomic changes on skeletal material recovered from the ancient sites of Marcahuamachuco and Cerro Amaru by the Huamachuco Archaeological Project in the 1980s. The remains were recovered from three different burial contexts: (1) Wall niches; (2) Underneath the Castillo; …
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The Children of Spring Street: The Remains of Childhood in a Nineteenth Century Abolitionist Congregation
<p>This dissertation examines the skeletal remains of 75 children interred the burial vaults (1820-1846) of the 19th century Spring Street Presbyterian Church in lower Manhattan. New York City and the 8th Ward neighborhood of the church were rapidly urbanizing and diversifying in the early 19th …
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Crossroads of Conversion: Intersections of Bodies, Materials, and Histories in Early Medieval Bohemia
<p>This dissertation examines the skeletal remains and mortuary practices from two cemeteries at the early medieval site of Libice nad Cidlinou in the Czech Republic. The 9th and 10th centuries in Central Europe have been characterized by political consolidation and the rise of Christian …
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Postcontact Native American health and adaptation: Assessing the impact of introduced diseases in sixteenth century Gulf Coast Florida
… the sixteenth-century. The evidence from human skeletal remains and mortuary sites is presented as particularly suitable for enhancing ethnohistoric descriptions of the events that transpired during that time.
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A comparative microscopic study of human and non-human long bone histology.
Identification of human or nonhuman skeletal remains is important in assisting the police and law enforcement officers for the investigation of forensic cases. Identification of bone can be difficult, especially in fragmented remains. It has been reported that 25 to 30% of medicolegal cases, which …
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The early inhabitants of the Upemba depression, the Democratic Republic of Congo
… of ancestral relationships with the human skeletal remains found in the Upemba Depression of Central Katanga, the Democratic Republic of Congo. This was done by assessing the biological variation of the human skeletal remains of the early inhabitants from the Upemba Depression in the …
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Mattress fires and their effect on the destruction and distribution of remains in a house-fire setting
<p>Forensically, burned and cremated remains are encountered on a fairly regular basis; owing their presence to both the relatively high fire death rate in the United States, and the continued (and mistaken) belief that human remains can be rendered unidentifiable or completely destroyed through …
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Life in Medieval Cambridge: an isotopic analysis of diet and mobility
… isotope analysis of human and faunal skeletal remains from cemetery sites excavated from Cambridge and its hinterlands to investigate what life was like for the population living in the High and Late Medieval period. Isotope sampling focussed on High and Late Medieval skeletal remains, …
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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
… This enabled not only the preservation of the skeletal remains to be observed under differing burial conditions, but incorporated the use of archaeothanatology to understand the cultural practices undergone during the time of burial. This PhD thesis found that soil pH was not the biggest …
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