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Editor's note
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On the outskirts of Sydney, in a secret bushland location, lies what’s officially known as the Australian Facility for Taphonomic Experimental Research (AFTER). In books and movies, it’d be called a body farm.
Here, at the only centre of its kind in the southern hemisphere, forensic scientists are discovering new clues about how human bodies decompose in Australian conditions, and upending previously held assumptions about how we determine time since death.
Today, on our podcast Trust Me, I’m An Expert, we take you on an audio tour of the AFTER facility, where UTS researcher Maiken Ueland reveals the research findings emerging from the centre - and what most people get wrong about clandestine graves.
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Sunanda Creagh
Head of Digital Storytelling
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Top story
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Research underway at the University of Technology, Sydney’s AFTER facility is yielding some surprising new findings about how bodies decompose in the Australian bush.
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Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation
On the outskirts of Sydney, in a secret bushland location, lies what's officially known as the Australian Facility for Taphonomic Experimental Research. In books or movies, it'd be called a body farm.
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