Thursday, July 10, 2008
Elisha, Matt,
Isaiah and Chase
Three of the "graves" at Waterman Farms on OSU campus.
Sometimes there is evidence of a burial poking through to the surface.
Today we
dug up [mock] dead bodies. They were plastic but it was still a lot of
fun. We worked from 8am to 5pm. It was really hot outside so time went
really slowly. The hardest part of the whole thing was drawing the maps
and labeling where each object was found on the map. If our drawing was
different from the real thing we had to fix it.
Mapping and teamwork are essential for a forensic
excavation.
A partly excavated "body."
For the first 3
hours we put up tents for shade and then we marked out a boundary for
our grave. Then we had to measure the parameter of the grave by using
Pythagorean Theorem a2 + b2 = c2. Our
grave had a dark circle in the middle where the suspect was placed. Two
people used a scraping tool to scrape layer by layer so the grave shape
wouldn’t change. It was a lot of fun, even though the people in my group
wouldn’t cooperate.
The victim has clearly been bound up with a belt
before burial.
A partly excavated body set up for mapping measurements.
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