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The University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility, better known as the Body Farm and sometimes seen as the Forensic Anthropology Facility, [2] was conceived in 1971 and established in 1972 by anthropologist William M. Bass as the first facility for the study of decomposition of human remains. [3]
The Body Farm consists of 2 fenced South Knoxville acres where donated bodies decay under controlled situations that mimic the fate of crime victims.
A body farm within a forensic training facility is featured in the beginning of episode 9.17 of Fox's television series The X-Files. The episode, titled "Release", mentions that the facility is located in Joplin, Virginia. Simon Beckett's novel Whispers of the Dead is set in and around the body farm in Knoxville, Tennessee. It is the third book ...
New grants from the Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice will help researchers study ground-penetrating radar and changes to DNA.
The Freeman Center houses the Texas State University Forensic Anthropology Center's body farm, where the deceased are used to study the various stages of body decomposition and their effects on the soil. [2]
The facility is more popularly known as "The Body Farm", a name used by crime author Patricia Cornwell in a novel of the same name, [2] which drew inspiration from Bass and his work. Bass has also described the body farm as "Death's Acre" – the title of the book on his life and career, co-written with journalist Jon Jefferson.
News of Canada’s first body farm, set to open this spring in Becancour, Que., has inspired a flood of volunteers to donate their eventual remains. Secure Site for Research in Thanatology is ...
A Forensic Anthropology Research Facility was commissioned by the Texas State University Department of Anthropology and is under the direction of Dr. Michelle Hamilton, a former student of Dr. Bill Bass, founder of the first body farm. [3] The forensic research facility is fully operational and is part of the Forensic Anthropology Center at ...