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Beginning with a modest spot of land for the Anthropology Research Facility, also known as The Body Farm, the Forensic Anthropology Center has grown into a leading institution for forensic anthropology research and training.
Video of a Body Farm-hosted course for FBI evidence response team (ERT) to training in forensic anthropology techniques for use at crime scenes. As of November 2023, the Body Farm covers 2.5 acres (10,000 m 2) of land and is surrounded by razor-wire and fences.
University of Tennessee. The original body farm is the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility located a few miles from downtown on Alcoa Highway in Knoxville, Tennessee, behind the University of Tennessee Medical Center.
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).
14 lis 2011 · Behind the University of Tennessee, a little outside of Knoxville, there’s a 2.5-acre plot of land surrounded by a razor wire fence. Often called the “Body Farm,” this site has helped ...
15 wrz 2017 · Just up the road from the university near the UT Medical Center, the Anthropology Research Facility—later to be dubbed the Body Farm by law enforcement officials—began to take shape in the fall of 1980. Bass and his students were responsible for the construction work at the new facility.
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.
