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Rebeca Custódio is a Master's student in Archaeology at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of the University of São Paulo (MAE-USP). Her research focuses on the funerary practices of the fisher-gatherer groups who occupied the Brazilian coast. She is particularly interested in the thermal alterations to human bones resulting from cremation rituals, integrating macroscopic and physicochemical analyses of burned remains to improve our understanding of funerary practices and the taphonomic pathways of thermally altered bones. Her academic background includes osteological curation, analysis of funerary contexts, and digital organization of skeletal collections. She is especially interested in the challenges of identifying intentional cremation and distinguishing different processes of thermal alteration in human remains.

Research interests: bioarchaeology, burned bones, archaeometry, cremation studies, paleopathology, and funerary archaeology.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5390-8819
X (Twitter): @rscbernardi