期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LEGAL MEDICINE
卷 124, 期 5, 页码 451-456出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-009-0372-5
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Time since death; Forensic botany; Taphonomy; Skeletonization
This paper illustrates the usefulness and efficiency of botanical evidence in establishing a minimum postmortem interval (PM I). The case under analysis refers to the remains of an adult male in an advanced state of skeletonization recovered from a wooded area in northern Portugal. The skeleton showed several taphonomical changes, which included the presence of green algae, bryophytes, and growing shrub roots in, around, and through the remains. By determining the age of both the bryophytes and shrub roots, it was concluded that the minimum amount of time elapsed since death was 3 years, to which several months or a few years have to be added to account for the complete decomposition of the remains. The disappearance of the presumptive individual had occurred 6 years before and is fully consistent with the estimate of the PMI. This report illustrates a novel use of bryophytes in a forensic setting.
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