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Medicine

Taphonomic Signatures in Forensic Anthropological Analysis

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Forensic anthropologists use taphonomic signatures to distinguish cut marks from postmortem animal gnawing, because cut marks show a different shape and micro-scarring than tooth marks.

Why this is interesting

What if a bone found in a forest could tell you the story of the crime—but also the story of the ants, the weather, and the soil? Taphonomy is the silent narrator of that story.