Using Technology to Find Hidden Graves
Forensic anthropologist Amy Mundorff has been identifying human remains for years. Now her goal is to make the search for the missing safer and more successful.
By Hannah Hoag|Tuesday, September 08, 2015
University of Tennessee students pause while digging a grave at the Forensic Anthropology Center in Knoxville in 2013, at the start of a project using remote sensing technology to locate mass graves.
Amy Smotherman Burgess/Knoxville News Sentinel/Zuma
One morning in July 2005, Amy Mundorff rode into the Bosnian countryside, tagging along with a team from the International Commission on Missing Persons. The roads wound past forests, farmland and villages. The group stopped near a field in a hilly area on the outskirts of a village to meet an informant. From the gestures and the translator’s comments, Mundorff understood that the ground beneath the field might hold bodies.
http://discovermagazine.com/2015/oct/14-body-of-evidence
