Title: Human remains :
Authors: Human remains : conservation, retrieval and analysis; Williams, Emily.
Date: 2001
Publisher: Archaeopress :
Physical description: v, 281 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: C
Contents: Inveestigation, documentation and repatriation of aboriginal skeletal remains / Michael Westaway and Alan Burns -- Reburial laws in action / Lane Beck and Lynn Teague -- From African-American cemeteries in New York and Philadelphia toward a community-based paradigm for the excavations and analysis of human remains / John P. McCarthy -- "Es ist alles tot Ding"!? / Elke Beck -- The Crantit tomb, Orkney / Beverley Ballin Smith -- A Bronze Age burial from north-east England / Jennifer Jones -- The cooperative efforts in the excavation of a royal Maya tomb / Catherine Magee ... [et al.] -- Hitting the ground running / Elizabeth Barham and Rebecca Lang -- Artifacts associated with human remains / Vicki Cassman -- Respect for the ancestors / Douglas Currie and Kevin McBride. "Last will, hiding pits, hiding caves" / Susan Lebo and Ellen-Rose Savulis -- Making human remains talk / Maria Garcia Rosales and Carmen Chinea Brito -- The conservation of Ta-Senet-Net-Hor, a XXII dynasty Egyptian mummy / Ronald Harvey and Rika Smith McNally -- The influence of conservation treatments on physical anthropology research / Georgios Panagiaris -- A long-term look at polymers used to preserve bone / Jessica Johnson -- Placing a face in history / C. Wayne Smith ... [et al.] -- Microfossils in dental calculus / Karl Reinhard ... [et al.] -- Survival of human hair / Andrew Wilson ... [et al.] -- The value of human remains for research and education / David Hunt -- Analysis of curated human skeletal remains from Highland Guatemala / Stephen Whittington -- Taking another look / Ann Palkovich. Standardized protocol for radiographic and photographic documentation of human skeletons / Karin S. Bruwelheide, Jane Beck, and Sarah Pelot -- Three dimensional (3-D) reconstruction applied to mummy conservation and display / David Kiple ... [et al.] -- Three dimensional digitizing of human skulls as an archival procedure / Stephen Ousley and Ashley McKeown -- Pressures on osteological collections / Anwen Caffell ... [et al.] -- Human skeletal collections / Robert Janaway ... [et al.] -- The management of human brains in soft tissue collections / Vincent Wan -- An historical study of two Egyptian mummies in the Milwaukee Public Museum / Carter Lupton -- From privates to presidents / Paul Sledzik and Lenore Barbian -- The conservation and rehousing of the Kennewick remains / Michael Trimble ... [et al.]. Preparing for bioanthropological research after repatriation / Melinda Carter, Dawn Cobb, and Michael Wiant -- When your insides are out / Lenore Barbian and Lisa Berndt -- London bodies / Helen Ganiaris -- The attraction of the macabre / Anna L. Wholley.
Subject headings (LCSH): Antiquities--Collection and preservation--Congresses; Forensic anthropology--Congresses.; Human remains (Archaeology)--Analysis--Congresses.; Human remains (Archaeology)--Analysis.; Human remains (Archaeology)--Congresses; Human remains (Archaeology)--Conservation.; Human remains (Archaeology)--Moral and ethical aspects.; Mummies.; Physical anthropology--Congresses.