Body Farm Finds Home
February 15th 2008 04:41 pm
The San Marcos body farm has finally found a home on the Freeman Ranch, leased to Texas State University. A body farm is a forensic anthropology site that is used to study bodies buried under different conditions: on the surface, at different depths, in a car trunk, under water, taking into account variables such as time of year and weather conditions.
The TV series, Bones, is about Temperance Brennan, a highly skilled forensic anthropologist who works at the Jeffersonian Institute in Washington, DC.Texas State University-San Marcos has their own Bones, Dr. Melbye, who is an expert in the field of physical anthropology with specialization in human skeletal biology. Dr. Melbye is the director of The Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State, Department of Anthropology.
Not that the Body Farm will be a hot tourist spot, but it is something of interest and provides a necessary service to students of forensic anthropology. It will also give Dr. Melbye a place to put all the bones that are sent to him by law enforcement officials.
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Mo responded on 16 Feb 2008 at 2:34 pm #
First time I’d ever heard of a Body Farm was in the book of the same name by Patricia Cornwell. I love Cornwell’s and Kathy Reich’s books, and am fascinated by series like CSI and Bones… perhaps I shoulda been a forensic scientist!
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CyberCelt responded on 25 Feb 2008 at 1:21 am #
@Mo-I love Bones. I think it would be great to be a forensic scientist, except for the bones and the bodies! LOL