The Murder Goes South Mystery Festival starts tomorrow. Are you excited?
Dr. Susan Kirkpatrick Smith from U.S. Customs and Border Protection is one reason you should be excited. She received her Ph.D. from Indiana University. Her areas of research interest include skeletal analysis and the interaction between health and social status in Greek populations. She spent a year living in Athens, Greece researching skeletons from the Late Bronze Age cemetery at the foot of the Acropolis. Her teaching interests include forensic anthropology, human evolution, and human biological variation.
Dr. Smith will be giving two presentations about forensic anthropology and how it can be used in the murder mystery business. The first, "Death, Decay and Decomposition" highlights what happens in the body after death. The second program "Who are You? Age, Sex, and Skeleton" will tell you everything that can and can't be learned about your deceased from a skeleton. Both programs will invite vigorous questioning from the audience.
