Abstract
Pyrolysis methods are only one section of the wide range of techniques which are currently being used to investigate forensic samples in police work, fakes in art and archaeology, and failures in functional industrial components. Other methods include direct chromatographic and mass spectrometric methods, UV and IR methods, optical and electron microscopy, X-ray methods, isotope and thermoluminescent dating, biochemical methods, and pattern/ style analysis. (This list is by no means exclusive). Some contributions from pyrolysis are outlined, and also the principles underlying some of the other current investigative methods are reviewed. Specific examples are provided to illustrate the scope of some of the methods. Finally, details of a case history are discussed, where detective work involving pyrolysis methods has been involved.
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