The speed of post mortem change to the human skeleton and its taphonomic significance.

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• Publication year

  1996

• Venue

  Forensic Science International

• Publication date

  1996-09-30

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/0379-0738(96)01984-6PMID 8885373
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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