ANT 3520 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Aerial Photography, Magnetometer, Penetrometer
19 Jan 2017
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The medical examiner may retain biological specimens for further analysis at their discretion. No family permission is required, nor is notification required. Application of standard archaeological procedures and techniques modified to meet the needs and requirements of crime scene processing involving buried bodies or skeletal remains. Why is the crime scene important: locate the crime scene in space, record the relationship between elements, discover the method of disposal, proper removal of evidence, map the scene to allow reconstruction. Non-invasive: satellite and aerial photography (imaging, remote geophysical (magnetometry, infrared, and gpr) Magnetometry disturbances in the magnetic field. When a body decomposes, it is composed on insects which creates more heat than a living body: line and grid searches, circular, cadaver dogs. They are very useful for being able to smell out and find bodies. The issue is trying to communicate what they find because dogs cannot talk to humans: psychics, *kid on a bicycle* Penetrometer looking for changes in soil compactions.
