taphonomy

Establishing time-since-death is key in forensic investigations. gorodenkoff     By Kara Adams, University of Cape Town and Victoria Gibbon, University of Cape Town     It was the kind of task any competent seamstress has completed hundreds of times before: altering denim jeans and jerseys. But there was something different about this piece of work. Though our team of scientists were paying for it, we weren’t her ultimate customers – […]