Search results
There is no cost to you or your family for the donation of your body to the Department of Anthropology. If you are in Tennessee and within 100 miles of Knoxville we can pick up your body at no charge.
- FAC Body Donation Program FAQ’s
More information can be found on our website...
- Anthropology
The Forensic Anthropology Center (FAC) is internationally...
- Forensic Anthropology Center
Our resources and facilities include the Anthropology...
- FAC Body Donation Program FAQ’s
More information can be found on our website (fac.utk.edu/body-donation/), by emailing us at donateinfo@utk.edu, or calling us at 865-974-4408. Forensic Anthropology Center. University of Tennessee Body Donation Program Policy. The donation of a person’s body after death is a tremendous gift.
12 kwi 2024 · The Forensic Anthropology Center (FAC) is internationally known for research on human decomposition and modern human variation. At the program’s core is the dynamic body donation program that currently comprises almost two thousand individuals in the UTK Donated Skeletal Collection and more than 4,000 registered future donors (pre-donors).
Our resources and facilities include the Anthropology Research Facility (commonly known as The Body Farm), a dynamic body donation program, the UTK Donated Skeletal Collection, Professional Training Courses and the William M. Bass Forensic Anthropology Building. These resources are available to students, researchers, and law enforcement agencies.
Body Farm staff is also studying the compounds released by corpses after burial. If a person is reported missing, the authorities search for the missing entities using K-9 units, but they do not know what specifically activates what the K-9 smell for. Research has confirmed that dead bodies give off more than 400 compounds.
20 mar 2019 · The outdoor site—popularly known as the “Body Farm”—consists of 2.5 shady acres where human donors are buried, partially covered, or left out in the elements so forensic anthropologists can...
14 lis 2018 · On average, it takes 18 months to two years before a Body Farm body ends as bones in the Bass collection. Until 2010 the program took unclaimed bodies donated by medical examiners. Now...
