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Erich Bloodaxe BSN

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6. I'm thinking about the University of Tennessee body farm.

Reply to handmade34 (Original post)

Fri Jun 27, 2014, 07:55 AM

Jun 2014

Forensic Anthropology Center

They dump you outside in different situations to gather data about decomposition. Afterwards, they clean up the skeleton and add it to the 'William Bass Donated Skeleton Collection', which numbers somewhere around 1k individuals at this point.

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