The governmental Ri.Sc form for unidentified human remains and the role of forensic anthropology

10.4081/4164 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Cappella ◽  
F. Magli ◽  
D. Porta ◽  
C. Cattaneo
Keyword(s):  
Forensic Anthropology ◽  
Human Remains

scholarly journals The Implications of Thermogenic Modification for Anthropological Recovery of Burned Bone

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meaghan Efford
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Forensic Anthropology ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Burn Trauma ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Burned Bone

<p class="p1">Burn trauma is prevalent in both archaeological and forensic records. It causes thermogenic modifications that have implications for the discipline of anthropology. Anthropologists and medical professionals are frequently the experts called to address burn trauma cases, often in the role of forensic anthropologists. This project seeks to discuss the processes of burn trauma and the resulting changes, as well as how the professionals in the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and medicine are discussing the recovery and analysis of burned human remains. An experiment is used to demonstrate these changes and compare them to those documented by experts in the field. A literature review discusses the processes of burn trauma and the resulting thermogenic modifications that are seen in the scholarly literature on the topic. The author makes recommendations for future research, namely the inclusion of weight in the recorded factors during experimentation and continued research into the recovery of burned remains. The author argues that the bioarchaeological approach of forensic anthropology benefits from the combined experience of archaeologists, biological anthropologists, and medical experts who have a background in osteology and biomechanics.</p>

scholarly journals Identifying Blunt Force Traumatic Injury on Thermally Altered Remains: A Pilot Study Using Sus scrofa

Biology ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Kamryn Keys ◽  
Ann H. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Forensic Anthropology ◽  
Sus Scrofa ◽  
Traumatic Injury ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Fire Damage ◽  
Fire Exposure ◽  
Blunt Force ◽  
Blunt Force Trauma ◽  
Anthropological Literature

In forensic scenarios involving homicide, human remains are often exposed to fire as a means of disposal and/or obscuring identity. Burning human remains can result in the concealment of traumatic injury, the creation of artifacts resembling injury, or the destruction of preexisting trauma. Since fire exposure can greatly influence trauma preservation, methods to differentiate trauma signatures from burning artifacts are necessary to conduct forensic analyses. Specifically, in the field of forensic anthropology, criteria to distinguish trauma from fire signatures on bone is inconsistent and sparse. This study aims to supplement current forensic anthropological literature by identifying criteria found to be the most diagnostic of fire damage or blunt force trauma. Using the skulls of 11 adult pigs (Sus scrofa), blunt force trauma was manually produced using a crowbar and flat-faced hammer. Three specimens received no impacts and were utilized as controls. All skulls were relocated to an outdoor, open-air fire where they were burned until a calcined state was achieved across all samples. Results from this experiment found that blunt force trauma signatures remained after burning and were identifiable in all samples where reassociation of fragments was possible. This study concludes that distinct patterns attributed to thermal fractures and blunt force fractures are identifiable, allowing for diagnostic criteria to be narrowed down for future analyses.

Re- visiting the Roman Iron Age Hoby chieftain burial after 100 years of its discovery - adding the strontium isotopic perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Margarita Frei ◽  
Susanne Klingenberg
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Environmental Samples ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Strontium Isotope ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
The North ◽  
Isotope Analyses ◽  
Shed Light

In 1920 on the island of Lolland, in southern Denmark the remains of one of northern Europe’s richest graves came to light, the Hoby chieftain burial. It revealed a large number of luxurious Roman goods, including two silver drinking cups decorated with Greek-inspired scenes from Homer’s Iliad. The burial dates to the beginning of the Roman Iron Age (1CE -200CE), and represents a key point in time when the Roman Empire failed to expand towards the north and changed its strategy towards a more political and diplomatic type of relationship with northern Europe. Hence, the Hoby burial is considered to be a key example of this type of relationship. We revisited the burial and present the first strontium isotope analyses of the human remains of the Hoby individual from three of his teeth and 10 additional environmental samples to shed light on his provenance. We discussed these results in light of the new insights provided by recent excavations of a contemporary nearby settlement. Our results indicate that the Hoby individual was most probably of local origin, corroborating previous interpretations. Furthermore, the associated settlement seems to confirm the central role of Hoby in the Early Roman Iron Age society.

Death, exchange and reproduction in the British Bronze Age

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Brück
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
The Self ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Interpersonal Ties ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the character and role of exchange in Bronze Age Britain. It critiques anachronistic models of competitive individualism, arguing instead that the circulation of both artefacts and the remains of the dead constructed the self in terms of enduring interpersonal ties. It is suggested that the conceptual divide between people and things that typifies post-Enlightenment rationalism has resulted in an understanding of Bronze Age exchange that implicitly characterizes objects as commodities. This article re-evaluates the relationship between people and things in Bronze Age Britain. It explores the role of objects as active social agents; the exchange of artefacts and of human remains facilitated the production of the self and the reproduction of society through cyclical processes of fragmentation, dispersal and reincorporation. As such, Bronze Age concepts of personhood were relational, not individual.

An Update on the Hazards and Risks of Forensic Anthropology, Part I: Human Remains

2015 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. S5-S13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsey G. Roberts ◽  
Gretchen R. Dabbs ◽  
Jessica R. Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Forensic Anthropology ◽  
Human Remains

A place for the dead: the role of human remains in Late Bronze Age Britain

1995 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. 245-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Brück
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Identity Continuity ◽  
Refuse Disposal ◽  
First Time ◽  
Burial Rite

The disappearance of an archaeologically visible burial rite at the beginning of the Late Bronze Age has puzzled archaeologists for some years yet has never formed a specific focus of research. This paper aims to look at the problem in detail for the first time. A corpus has been compiled listing sites from which human remains dating to this period have been recovered. The contexts in which these remains are found are documented and discussed; these include, for example, finds from settlements, hoards, and wet places. It is argued that many of the sites do not represent the residues of ‘normal’ mortuary rituals but may instead result from other ritual practices or from refuse disposal activities. It is concluded from contextual patterning in the data that human remains were used in situations where concepts of liminality, identity, continuity, and renewal needed to be highlighted. The potential of human remains for symbolising these themes was drawn upon in activities during which concerns central to Late Bronze Age communities were confronted. The nature of these concerns is discussed in relation to wider developments that occur over the Late Bronze Age. It is argued that the ways in which human remains were deposited were intimately related to the development of new discourses within society as the basis of socio-political power changed from practices surrounding the consumption and exchange of bronze to the control of agricultural production and human and agricultural fertility. The symbolic themes dealt with during the deposition of human remains in specific locations relate to these changing concerns and allowed individuals to situate themselves within a changing society and to negotiate their relationships with others.

Skeletal Indicators of Shark Feeding on Human Remains: Evidence from Florida Forensic Anthropology Cases

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (6) ◽  
pp. 1647-1654 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michala K. Stock ◽  
Allysha P. Winburn ◽  
George H. Burgess
Keyword(s):  
Forensic Anthropology ◽  
Human Remains
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