Estimation of the Time since Death

Jarvis Hayman is a retired surgeon who studied archaeology, completing a Master’s degree at the Australian National University in Canberra with a thesis on the archaeology of the Scottish Highland Clearances. He then combined his medical and archaeological knowledge to complete a PhD on the estimation of the time since death in decomposed human bodies in Australian conditions. His research areas of interest are: historical archaeology and forensic archaeology/anthropology. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University and the co-author of Human Body Decomposition. Marc Oxenham is a Professor in Bioarchaeology at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. His expertise in human skeletal biology has been recognized nationally through invitations to consult on a range of forensic cases for the Australian Federal Police, Australian Government Solicitor, The Australian Defense Forces (in particular Unrecovered War Casualties-Army) as well as the New South Wales Police Force. His main research has concentrated on exploring aspects of human palaeopathology and behavior by way of analyses of human skeletal and dental material. He has held teaching and research positions at Colorado College, USA, and the ANU. He was president of the Australasian Society of Human Biology (2012-14), an Australian Future Fellow (2013-17), elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2011 and elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2016.

• 1. Approaches to time since death estimation2. Estimation of the time since death in the early postmortem period (24-48 hours)3. Biochemical Methods of Estimating Time Since Death4. The application of insects to the estimation of the time since death5. TSD estimation in the advanced stages of decomposition6. The Importance of Microbial Communities in the Estimation of the Time Since Death7. The postmortem interval and skeletal remains8. Estimation of the TSD in an Aquatic Environment9. Radiocarbon and Amino Acid Racemization (AAR) and the time since death10. The Development of Grading Systems to Determine Human Decomposition: Total Body Scoring of Decomposed11. The Future of Taphonomic Research

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