Browsing Dissertations and Theses by Author "Garcia-Putnam, Alexander"
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AN INVESTIGATION OF THE TAPHONOMIC EFFECTS OF ANIMAL SCAVENGING
Garcia-Putnam, Alexander (East Carolina University, 2014)Numerous environmental and human-induced variables that affect decomposition can cloud accurate estimations of the postmortem interval (PMI). For instance, scavenging animals can remove soft tissue and disarticulate and ...