ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SPECIFIC BELONGING OF THE BONES SUBJECTED TO THE HIGH TEMPERATURE EXPOSURE AT MEDICAL IDENTIFICATION OF THE LOST PERSONS

The objective of the paper was to describe the experience of the authors concerning anexperimental study of the bone tissue and bone fragments, which were exposed to hightemperatures, in order to establish the species in the process of identifying the dead.Material and methods. In the process of performing this work, we used 350 tubular andflat bones of skeletons of people aged 20 to 65 years (long and short tubular bones, ribs) and 120 bones of domestic animals of the same name (cows, pigs, sheep, dogs).Conclusion. A comprehensive osteoscopic, microscopic, microosteometric and micro Xray studies of burned to gray glowing human bones and individual domestic animals ofvarying degrees of destruction (from large fragments to the actual ash) revealed anumber of features of the microscopic structure and mineralization of the bone tissue,which can be used in the process of species differentiation of the burned bone residues.