ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Data Journal

OSTEOMETRICS IN BURNED HUMAN SKELETAL REMAINS: ESTIMATING HEAT-INDUCED DIMENSIONAL CHANGES IN BONES BY NEUTRON SPECTROSCOPY

Abstract: This study aims at developing a reliable method for probing diagenetic alterations in human bones upon burning events, by INS spectroscopy. The results will be coupled to Raman and FTIR data (obtained concomitantly), with a view to better understand heat-induced changes in bone, thus providing a way to estimate their effect on the metric dimensions of human skeletal remains. This is an innovative way of tackling human bone tissue, that will pave the way for the analysis of other types of remains (e.g. teeth), leading to an improved understanding of burning-induced diagenesis. Such a quantitative method for assessing dimensional changes in burned human bones will be of the utmost significance in both anthropological and archaeological contexts, namely for the analysis of burned human remains from forensic scenes (e.g. victim identification) or archaelogical settings.

Public release date: 09 November 2018

Principal Investigator: Dr Maria Paula Marques
Experimenter: Dr David Gonçalves
Experimenter: Dr Luis Alberto Batista de Carvalho
Experimenter: Professor Stewart Parker

DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.67772657

Parent DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1520001

ISIS Experiment Number: RB1520001

Part Number: 1

Date of Experiment: 04 November 2015

Publisher: STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

Data format: RAW/Nexus
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