Crazing

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Calcined Bone

Bone heated to above approximately 700°C, resulting in complete combustion of the organic component (collagen), leaving only mineral hydroxyapatite; characterised by white...

Delamination

The separation of the outer table of bone from the underlying diploe or cortex in curved sheets during green-bone burning; produced by...

Dry Bone Fracture Pattern

Straight, longitudinal fractures running parallel to the long axis of a bone, following the Haversian structural directions; characteristic of bone burned after...

Green Bone Fracture Pattern

Curved transverse fractures running approximately perpendicular to the long axis of a bone, with a stepped or warped cross-sectional profile; characteristic of...

Hydroxyapatite (HA)

The calcium phosphate mineral [Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2] that comprises approximately 70 per cent of bone mass; survives fire at all temperature stages, sintering and...

NFPA 921

US National Fire Protection Association Guide for Fire and Explosion Investigations. The internationally accepted methodology Indian fire investigators and SFSL fire divisions...

Pope-Smith Framework

The 2004 analytical framework distinguishing perimortem from postmortem fire exposure using fracture geometry, cross-section colour uniformity, periosteal behaviour, and anatomical integrity; explicitly...

Shipman Colour Stages

The five-stage colour classification (yellow-tan, brown, black, blue-grey, white) published by Patricia Shipman and colleagues in 1984, corresponding approximately to temperature ranges...

ZooMS (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry)

A peptide mass fingerprinting method using collagen fragment masses to identify bone to species level; applicable to burned bone samples where conventional...

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• Thermal Trauma: Calcined Bone, Colour Stages and Heat-Induced FragmentationA mosaic network of intersecting surface fissures on burned bone, produced by differential contraction of the outer bone surface relative to the interior as te...