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 Developing and Validating Regional Taphonomic Standards for the Recovery and Interpretation of Skeletal Remains in Outdoor Settings
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              This awardee has received supplemental funding. This award detail page includes information about both the original award and supplemental awards.
Award Information
Awardee
              University of Maine System acting through Univ. of Maine
Award #
              2008-DN-BX-K177
Funding Category
              Competitive
Location
                    Orono, ME
Awardee County
              Penobscot
Congressional District
              2
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2008
Total funding (to date)
              $492,036
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 08 Research and Development in Forensic Anthropology and Odontology: Invited Full Proposals
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2008, $278,978)
This project will develop regional standards for taphonomic data collection and interpretation to be used by forensic anthropologists in the recovery, examination, and interpretation of human skeletal remains. By standardizing the functions of taphonomy centers, anthropologists will be able to access important data for cases involving human remains throughout the country, which will facilitate identification and reduce the case backlog of unidentified human remains.



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Supplemental Award 1 (Fiscal Year 2009, $213,058)
The goal of this project is to develop regional standards for taphonomic data collection and interpretation to be used by forensic anthropologists in the recovery, examination, and interpretation of human skeletal remains.  Such regional models are necessary in order to correctly interpret taphonomic (postmortem) change, estimate time since death, interpret cadaver dog searches, and discriminate taphonomic change from trauma.  Under the continuation phase, the researchers will test model and assessment tools with new forensic cases, continue to review and test with K-9 trials and pig cadavers and disseminate the results of the project.
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Grant-Funded Publications
        
                      Developing Regional Taphonomic Standards
                  Regional and Micro-Environmental Taphonomic Variation and Decomposition in Northern New England

  
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