title: Analysis of pathological and non-pathological human skeletal remains by FT-IR spectroscopy.
abstract: In this study, we report the chemical analyses of various non-pathological, tuberculosis and syphilis infected bone samples from different burial environments by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), in the framework of a general study of diagenesis. Dating human skeletal remains is one of the most important and yet unreliable aspects of forensic anthropology. In this paper, a new method has been suggested, using the crystallinity index and carbonate-phosphate index as a means of distinction between recent and archaeological, anthropological bone samples. Pathological bone samples were analyzed with the same method to see if changes in crystallinity interfere with the process of dating.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Pecs, Pecs H-7624, Hungary.
authors.forename: Gergely
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Nagy
authors.forename: Tamas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lorand
authors.forename: Zoltan
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Patonai
authors.forename: Gergely
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Montsko
authors.forename: Istvan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bajnoczky
authors.forename: Antonia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Marcsik
authors.forename: Laszlo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mark
mesh_terms: D001031:Apatites / Q000032:analysis; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000737:chemistry; D002130:Calcium Phosphates / Q000032:analysis; D003461:Crystallography; D005260:Female; D018732:Forensic Anthropology / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010316:Particle Size; D017550:Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared
chemical_list: D001031:Apatites; D002130:Calcium Phosphates; C030782:carboapatite