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01-03-2021 | Autopsy | Letter to the Editor

Sometimes human hair can become fair over time as the result of a long post mortem period

Authors: Vladimir Živković, Danica Cvetković, Slobodan Nikolić

Published in: Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology | Issue 1/2021

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We have read with great interest the article by Davey and Spring entitled “Is ancestry, not natron, an explanation for fair haired children in Greco-Roman Egypt?” [1]. Therein they stated: “There was not any evidence that hair lightened as the result of natural post mortem changes” and “the fair hair observed in the three child mummies was not the result of exposure to natron or post mortem changes but rather it was probably due to ancestry”. [1] …

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Title: Sometimes human hair can become fair over time as the result of a long post mortem period
Authors: Vladimir Živković
Danica Cvetković
Slobodan Nikolić
Publication date: 01-03-2021
Publisher: Springer US
Keyword: Autopsy
Published in: Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology / Issue 1/2021
Print ISSN: 1547-769X
Electronic ISSN: 1556-2891
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12024-020-00276-7

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