FINDING NEW CLUES ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL BONES – HEAT-INDUCED CHANGES PROBED BY NEUTRONS

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Human skeletal remains from archaeological settings are studied by neutron vibrational spectroscopy as an innovative way of analysing these kind of samples, particularly aiming at the assessment of heat-induced alterations. This work builds on the success of previous experiments at ISIS on human bones burned under controlled conditions, which allowed us to probe burning-elicited changes through specific spectral biomarkers, and constitute the first studies on human skeletal remains by neutron techniques [1]. The INS results obtained from the archaeological specimens (coupled to FTIR and Raman data) are expected to yield relevant bioarchaeological information, by correlating the spectroscopically detected structural changes due to burning to the temperature and duration of the burning event as well as to bone´s macroscopic characteristics (e.g. dimensions and colour).

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.92918618
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/92918618
Provenance
Creator Professor Stewart Parker; Dr Maria Paula Marques; Professor Carla Andreani; Dr Giulia Festa; Dr Luis Alberto Batista de Carvalho; Dr Olga Rickards
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Biology; Biomaterials; Chemistry; Engineering Sciences; Life Sciences; Materials Science; Materials Science and Engineering; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-05-09T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-06-30T13:02:00Z