Recovery and identification of heavily burnt and fragmented skeletal remains pose
significant challenges in fire and arson investigations. The ability to identify individuals is …

This review covers research in the areas of fire debris analysis and fire investigations since
the 19th International Forensic Science Managers Symposium in 2019. The literature …

Burial rites of archaeological populations are frequently interpreted based on cremated
remains of the human body and the urn they were deposited in. In comparison to …

The site of San Valentino in San Vito al Tagliamento is one of the main urnfield cemeteries
in northeastern Italy. Archaeological excavations carried out in the seventies brought to light …

Studies of funerary practices provide information about many aspects of death in past
societies. However, only limited archaeological evidence documents the circumstances …

Estimating sex from burnt human remains is a challenging task in bioanthropology, mainly
due to their high level of alteration and fragmentation. Protected within the petrous part of the …

Cremation was a very common ritual in ancient Roman funerary traditions. However, the
study of cremated human remains has always been complex and challenging, which has …

This paper argues that what is presently considered normal practice in Romanian
archaeology is too narrow with respect to the variety of data that can potentially be collected …