Burned and buried: A vibrational spectroscopy analysis of burial-related diagenetic changes of heat-altered human bones.
Joana RosaAna Rita VassaloAna AmaranteLuís A E Batista de CarvalhoMaria Paula M MarquesMaria Teresa FerreiraDavid GonçalvesPublished in: American journal of biological anthropology (2023)
Our results suggest that diagenesis can have an effect in bone's molecular composition. However, these effects do not seem to significantly affect the conclusions that can be taken from the analysis of infrared bone spectra, at least in the case of inhumations with a duration of 5 years or less.