Fire and bodies / John D. DeHaan -- Patterned thermal destruction of human remains in a forensic setting / Steven A. Symes ... [et al.] -- The recovery and study of burned human teeth / Christopher W. Schmidt -- Analysis of human cremains: gross and chemical methods / John J. Schultz, Michael W. Warren, and John S. Krigbaum -- Thermally induced changes in the stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of charred bones / Mark R. Schurr, Robert G. Hayes, and Della C. Cook -- Bone color as an interpretive tool of the despoitional history of archaeological cremains / Joanne B. Devlin and Nicholas P. Herrmann -- Time, temperature, and oxygen availability: an experimental study of the effects of environmental conditions on the color and organic content of cremated bone / Phillip L. Walker, Kevin W.P. Miller, and rebecca Richman -- Heat-related changes in tooth color: temperature versus duration of exposure / Jeremy J. Beach, Nicholas V. Passalacqua, and Erin N. Chapman -- Investigations on pre-Roman and roman cremation remains from southwestern Germany: results, potentialities and limits / Joachim Wahl -- In the heat of the pyre: efficiency of oxidation in Romano-British creamations--Did it really matter? / Jacqueline I. McKinley -- Fire as a cultural taphonomic agent: understanding mortuary behavior at Khuzhir-Nuge XIV, Siberia / Misty A. Weitzel and Hugh G. McKenzie -- Putting together the pieces: reconstructing mortuary practices from commingled ossuary cremains / A. Joanne Curtin -- A taphonomic analysis of human cremains from the Fox Hollow Farm serial homicide site / Amanda Baker Bontrager and Stephen P. Nawrocki -- Early archaic cremations from southern Indiana / Christopher W. Schmidt ... [et al.] -- Towards an archaeology of cremation / Howard Williams.