During the invasive stage of an archaeological investigation, both professions apply archaeological theories and techniques, which includes anything from understanding depositional relationships to stratigraphy. What can set forensic archaeology apart in this stage of work though is the necessity of flexibility in applying archaeological techniques to body recovery. One example in which flexibility becomes more pertinent in a forensic investigation is in the case where a girl’s body had to be recovered from a septic tank, thus hindering normal archaeological methods of recovering the body (Schultz and Dupras, 2008).
Another characteristic of burial excavation that sets forensic archaeology apart from conventional archaeology is in how a grave
Another characteristic of burial excavation that sets forensic archaeology apart from conventional archaeology is in how a grave