About crypt burials of Kazakhkstan

Human Burials

Taphonomic factors significantly affect the preservation of bone specimens that are ultimately available for examination by the researcher. Burial practices can disturb previous interments, as does rodent burrowing. Soil pH can greatly alter or destroy many smaller bone or bone with less density. Flooding and erosional episodes, as discussed in the last paper, can severely disturb burials. Fina...

Burials: Dietary Sampling Methods

House-Yard Burials of Enslaved Laborers in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica

Four burials were excavated from discrete house-yard compounds in an eighteenth century African Jamaican slave settlement at Seville plantation. Though only four in number, these individuals provide significant information on burial practices and physical conditions within a clearly defined African Jamaican community. The analysis of material remains illuminate living conditions and social rela...

Crypt-Opthalmia Case

SnapShot: The Intestinal Crypt

Intestinal organoids provide a convenient and physiologically relevant in vitro model system to study the intestinal epithelium. This 3D, multicellular culture system recapitulates the lumen and crypt-villus structure of the intestine, and incorporates all of the cell types found in the adult intestinal epithelium. Intestinal organoids make it easier than ever to get in vivo insight from in vit...