“…for example, taphonomic alteration and its impact on histological preparations and on estimations are only briefly mentioned in some chapters. Other crucial and regrettably missing topics are studies of cremated remains that are of interest to archaeologists and forensic anthropologists (Gocha and Schutkowski, 2012;Großkopf, 1989;Oliveira-Santos et al, 2017), and studies of software-assisted applications (Bertrand et al, 2022), since several contributing authors apply untested tools for processing and analysing micrographs. Overall, the main strength of this book is to have succeeded in bringing together a large number of talented international researchers around a disregarded but promising biological tissue.…”