Death, decay, and reconstruction: approaches to archaeology and forensic science

A. Boddington, A. N. Garland, R. C. Janaway

Manchester University Press ND, 1987 - Law - 249 pages

Contents

• Detection and enhancement of decayed inhumations at: 10
• Decay and disorder in the York Jewbury skeletons: 22
• Bass Department of Anthropology University of Tennessee: 31
• Factors determining the state of preservation of human remains: 43
• Gordon Square London WC1H: 54
• implications: 55
• Knowledge acquired from postWar exhumations: 65
• a substance found in funerary urns: 81
• A new method of estimating age at death from fragmentary and: 101
• A histological study of archaeological bone decomposition: 109
• The preservation of organic materials in association with metal: 127
• The potential of analysis of chemical constituents of bone: 149
• Skeletal evidence for health and disease: 163
• the problem of numbers: 180
• society theory building and archaeology: 198
• The contribution that human skeletal biology may make to: 217
• Index: 240

Bibliographic information

• Title: Death, decay, and reconstruction: approaches to archaeology and forensic science
• Authors: A. Boddington, A. N. Garland, R. C. Janaway
• Editors: A. Boddington, A. N. Garland, R. C. Janaway
• Contributor: A. Boddington
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Manchester University Press ND, 1987
• ISBN: 0719023033, 9780719023033
• Length: 249 pages
• Subjects: Anthropometry; Archaeology; Demographic archaeology; Forensic anthropology; Human remains (Archaeology); Law / Forensic Science; Medical / General; Medical / Pathology; Paleopathology; Physical anthropology; Prehistoric peoples; Science / Paleontology; Social Science / Anthropology / Physical; Social Science / Archaeology