Human decomposition in sea water poses several challenges to forensic practitioners
tasked with the analysis of drowned bodies. Postmortem changes in the marine environment …

The number of annual maritime fatalities reported in the Mediterranean has more than
doubled in the last two years, a phenomenon closely linked to the increase of migrants …

Estimating the postmortem interval (PMI) in cetaceans is challenging. These mammals often
sink after death, later floating and traveling considerable distances before stranding …

While many studies have developed microbial succession‐based models for the prediction
of postmortem interval (PMI) in terrestrial systems, similar well‐replicated long‐term …

This volume contains papers presented during the last three European Meetings on
Forensic Archaeology (EMFA) conferences. Some of these papers are written by …

Purpose The decomposition process of human bodies in marine environment is not well
understood, and it is influenced by external variables related to the geographical area where …

Forensic anthropological investigations often encounter cases that are difficult to interpret,
especially when dealing with skeletal remains found in a marine context. Determining the …

Human remains immersed in marine environments present specific challenges at various
steps of the forensic investigation process, including the detection, recovery, analysis, and …

Human remains have been recovered from a number of historic shipwrecks and their
associated sites, often hundreds of years post-mortem. While remains of victims who have …

Researchers have observed that rainfall may re‐initiate decomposition in desiccated tissue;
however, no conclusive research‐based evidence exists on the specific effects of …