Postmortem Change in Human and Animal Remains: A Systematic Approach"Postmortem change in human and animal remains: A Systematic Approach provides a unique, synthetic treatment of postmortem change presented in a systematic fashion with attention to the relative chronologies of both physical and cultural factors that influence human and animal remains. This book integrates reports and observations in the anthropology/archaeology literature with material as appropriate from medicine, pathology, paleopathology, ethnography (cultural anthropology) and the forensic sciences, as well as reporting on original observations by the author. In addition to discussing transformation of skeletal remains (as is the focus of most taphonomic studies in anthropology and archaeology), comprehensive treatment is given to changes in soft tissue remains, as well as to conditions under which such remains may be preserved postmortem. The immediate changes that occur within minutes/hours have been traditionally described by forensic pathologists, while this book "fills in the blanks" between where pathology has traditionally left off, and before anthropology has traditionally begun. It also includes an integrated review of what anthropology traditionally considers. More and more anthropologists and forensic scientists are called upon to systematically interpret postmortem changes "from beginning to end," cutting across various fields of study."--Pub. desc. |
Contents
Preface | 3 |
Postmortem Preservation and Modification of Soft | 9 |
Postmortem Preservation and Modification of Soft | 15 |
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action activity agents American anatomical ancient animal animal remains antiquity appear archaeologic record assemblages associated attritional bacterial Binford body bone bovids Brain Brothwell burial buried butchering cancer Canopic Jars carnivores cause changes consumption cultural dead death decay decomposition density deposition described desiccation destruction determine differential disarticulation disease early effects Egypt Egyptian elements ends environment evidence factors Forensic formation freezing growth head human and animal human behavior human remains increases influence insects interval later malignant material Micozzi micro-organisms modification mummies natural observed occur operation organisms patterns Period phase placed plant populations possible postmortem practices predators present preservation Press primary processes rates regions relatively removed reported represented result scavengers season sequences skeletal skeleton skin skull soft tissue soil species studies surface Table taphonomic temperature tion transformation transport tumors types various vertebrae weathering wrapped