A study of the intrinsic variability and the effect of environmental conditions on the formation of a postmortem root band

Damaso, Natalie; Jones, Katherine F.; Carlson, Traci L.; Fleming, J. A.; Steadman, Dawnie Wolfe; Jantz, Lee Meadows; Hauther, Kathleen; Otterstatter, Linda M.; Donfack, Joseph

doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2018.09.032

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“…Hair is a structure among all mammals that is subject to the forces of evolution, being also a ‘snapshot of life' within the body and providing valuable information to bioarchaeology and forensic science (Robertson ; Taru and Backwell ; Damaso et al . ; Donfack and Castillo ).…”

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“…Microscopy is a key approach to assess the preservation and post mortem alterations of tissues from hair, teeth, bones or other organs (Bell 2011). Hair is a structure among all mammals that is subject to the forces of evolution, being also a 'snapshot of life' within the body and providing valuable information to bioarchaeology and forensic science (Robertson 1999;Taru and Backwell 2013;Damaso et al 2018;Donfack and Castillo 2018).…”

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Archaeological human hair in a burial context: Microscopical evaluation of samples from Iași, Romania (18th–19th centuries)

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Owing to its resistance to degradation, hair is an important bio‐sample with unique properties used to study post mortem decompositional changes. The present paper is a microscopical approach to preserved human scalp hair discovered at the 18th–19th‐century archaeological site of Iași, Romania. The hair fibre alterations were assessed using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, image analysis and hair histological scores. External alterations showed a statistically significant heterogeneous degradation. Image analysis results of the internal degradation of hairs were correlated to external lesions. The results consider the implication of intrinsic biological factors in the post mortem degradation of human hair preserved in graves with comparable environmental conditions.

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confidence: 99%