Human remains under the microscope of funerary taphonomy: Investigating the histological biography of the decaying body in the prehistoric Aegean

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 102654
Author(s):  
Niki Papakonstantinou ◽  
Thomas Booth ◽  
Sevasti Triantaphyllou
Keyword(s):  
Human Remains ◽  
Prehistoric Aegean

Human Remains

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Clegg
Keyword(s):  
Human Remains

Collective Memory, Personal Pain: The Circulation of 9/11 Unidentified Human Remains

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh ◽  
Ventura Perez ◽  
Heidi Bauer-Clapp
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Human Remains

Three Cists from Tayvallich, Argyll

1986 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Lehane
Keyword(s):  
Human Remains

Summary Three cists were discovered during the rebuilding of a house in Tayvallich. They appear to have been inserted into a roughly oval pit. All three cists contained cremated human remains and Cist 3 also contained a food vessel with beaker affinities. Lithics from among the cairn material appear to be a redeposited Mesolithic assemblage.

A Medieval Burial from Graham Street, Leith, Edinburgh

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-169
Author(s):  
Paul R. J. Duffy ◽  
Olivia Lelong
Keyword(s):  
Contextual Information ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Housing Development ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Archaeological Excavation ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Physical Evidence ◽  
Research Division ◽  
The North ◽  
The Individual

Summary An archaeological excavation was carried out at Graham Street, Leith, Edinburgh by Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division (GUARD) as part of the Historic Scotland Human Remains Call-off Contract following the discovery of human remains during machine excavation of a foundation trench for a new housing development. Excavation demonstrated that the burial was that of a young adult male who had been interred in a supine position with his head orientated towards the north. Radiocarbon dates obtained from a right tibia suggest the individual died between the 15th and 17th centuries AD. Little contextual information exists in documentary or cartographic sources to supplement this scant physical evidence. Accordingly, it is difficult to further refine the context of burial, although a possible link with a historically attested siege or a plague cannot be discounted.

Unclean Truth

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Talbot
Keyword(s):  
Human Remains ◽  
Liminal Space ◽  
Pedagogical Tool ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
Museum Exhibits ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Object Biography ◽  
Physical Form ◽  
English Society ◽  
Physical Objects

The Metropolitan Police’s Crime Museum, famously known as the Black Museum, exhibits evidence from some of the most appalling crimes committed within English society from the late-Victorian era into modernity. Public admittance to this museum is strictly prohibited, preventing all but police staff from viewing the macabre exhibitions held within. The physical objects on display may vary, but whether the viewer is confronted with household items, weaponry or human remains, the evidence before them is undeniably associated with the immorality surrounding the performance of a socially bad death, of murder. These items have an object biography, they are both contextualized and contextualize the environment in which they reside. But one must question the purpose of such a museum, does it merely act as a Chamber of Horrors evoking the anomie of English society in physical form, or do these exhibits have an educational intent, restricted to their liminal space inside New Scotland Yard, to be used as a pedagogical tool in the development of new methods of murder investigation.

Human remains from Nemrik, Iraq. An insight into living conditions and burial customs in a Pre-Pottery Neolithic village

Paléorient ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arkadiusz Sołtysiak ◽  
Alina Wiercinska ◽  
Stefan Karol Kozlowski
Keyword(s):  
Human Remains ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Burial Customs ◽  
Insight Into

Mousterian and Aurignacian Human Remains from Hayonim Cave, Israel

Paléorient ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baruch Arensburg ◽  
Ofer Bar-Yosef ◽  
Anna Belfer-Cohen ◽  
Yoel Rak
Keyword(s):  
Human Remains

The Chemistry Decomposition in Human Corpses

2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (6) ◽  
pp. 1352-1356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatrice Gabriela Ioan ◽  
Cristiana Manea ◽  
Bianca Hanganu ◽  
Laura Statescu ◽  
Laura Gheuca Solovastru ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Compounds ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Organic Substances ◽  
Chemical Decomposition ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Human Decomposition ◽  
Decomposition Processes ◽  
Human Cadavers ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Decomposition Stages

Human body is a complex of organic substances (proteins, lipids, carbohydrates), which undergo chemical decomposition processes soon after death. The compounds released during decomposition characterize the development of different stages of this process: e.g. biogenic amines resulted from the proteins decomposition will confer the particular smell of a cadaver, gases resulted from carbohydrates fermentation will give the bloating aspect of the cadaver. The study of cadaver decomposition and the products resulted from this process is the subject of human taphonomy and is realized nowadays in special facilities in USA and Australia. Identification and analysis of the chemical compounds emerged after human decomposition (gases, liquids, salts) give valuable information to forensic pathologists for estimating the postmortem interval (PMI). More, volatile compounds � which give the odor signature�specific to human remains � may be utilized in identifying clandestine burials, human remains or victims entrapped under ruins in cases of natural disasters. In this paper the authors describe the chemical decomposition stages of human cadavers, the factors influencing these processes and utility for the forensic activity of the results of human taphonomic studies.

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