David Gonçalves

TL;DR: Bone warping and thumbnail fractures have been linked to the burning of fleshed and green bones, where the soft tissues have been removed from the bones soon after death as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The purpose of this study is to characterize and contextualize the new collection of identified skeletons housed in the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, which constitutes a fundamental tool for forensic anthropology research, including development and validation studies of skeletal aging and sexing methods that target elderly adults.

TL;DR: These results will enable the routine use of FTIR-ATR (Fourier Transform Infrared-Attenuated Total Reflectance) for the analysis of burned skeletal remains, which will be of the utmost significance in forensic, bioanthropological and archaeological contexts.

TL;DR: One of the biggest struggles of biological anthropology is to estimate the biological profile from burned human skeletal remains as discussed by the authors, and bio-anthropological methods are seriously compromised due to bone he...

TL;DR: This study supports the relative value of the proximal femur to estimate sex in skeletal remains, especially when other exceedingly dimorphic skeletal elements are not accessible for analysis.