Endnote 4 – New Evidence of the Royal Stoa and Roman Flames
During heating, bones undergo changes including dehydration, oxidation, decompostion and fusion. The fired bones revert from a gray to pale color as most of the organic material is burned off. On the burned rosette surface the bone chips are reddish brown, the yellow and white patches beneath resulted from bone disintegration and fusion with the carbonate (host limestone) substratum.