The location of unmarked graves in forensic and archaeological investigations is legally and
culturally important. In a forensic context, locating covert burials of missing persons can …

The construction of the new Crossrail railway discovered 25 well preserved skeletons
shallowly buried in Central London in 2013. Subsequent carbon dating and aDNA analysis …

Electrical resistivity has been used as a non-invasive geophysical technique for locating
clandestine graves and monitoring human decay within the subsurface. Detailed studies …

Hand-held, portable X-Ray fluorescence instruments (pXRF) provide a means of rapid, in-
situ chemical characterisation that has considerable application as a rapid trace evidence …

This ongoing monitoring study provides forensic search teams with systematic geophysical
data over simulated clandestine graves for comparison to active cases. Simulated …

Finding hidden bodies, believed to have been murdered and buried, is problematic,
expensive in terms of human resource and currently has low success rates for law …

The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (2002) establishes that the enforced
disappearance of persons “means the arrest, detention or abduction of persons by, or with …

The identification of unmarked graves and burials is one of most common applications of
ground‐penetrating radar (GPR) in archaeology. Despite a high frequency of use and a long …

Graveyards and cemeteries around the world are increasingly designated as full. Therefore,
there is a requirement to identify vacant spaces for new burials or to identify existing ones to …

In this study, we present an experiment design and assess the capability of multiple
geophysical techniques to image buried human remains in mass and individual graves …