Soil temperature logging
Definition
Placement of calibrated temperature dataloggers at the grave depth during excavation, allowing the actual thermal history of the burial environment to be retrospectively reconstructed and used in ADD calculations.
Related terms
- Accumulated degree days (ADD)
- The sum of daily mean temperatures above a threshold (usually 0 °C) over a period of interest. Used as a measure of...
- Burial interval
- The elapsed time between placement of the body in the ground and the time of recovery. Distinct from the post-mortem interval (time...
- Minimum date evidence
- Artefacts (coins, currency notes, dated packaging, mobile phones) recovered from a burial whose manufacture date establishes that burial cannot have occurred before...
- PFIDAC
- Post-mortem Forensic Index of Decomposition and Alteration in Context: a UK-developed scoring protocol that standardises the description of decomposition stages in buried...
- Pollen stratigraphy
- The analysis of pollen assemblages at different depth horizons within the grave fill to establish a seasonal or annual chronology. A pollen...
Explained in
- Burial Interval EstimationPlacement of calibrated temperature dataloggers at the grave depth during excavation, allowing the actual thermal history of the burial environment to be retro...