Ami Attee participates in Anthropological Research Facility program

In the summer of 2011, Ami Attee participated in a program at the University of Tennessee's Anthropological Research Facility (ARF) in Knoxville.

During this program, she worked with the Bass collection to test her forensic anthropology skills and learn cutting-edge techniques for establishing a biological profile (age, sex, and ancestry), while also assessing evidence of trauma and pathologies.

Ami had the opportunity to study taphonomic processes (changes the body goes through after death). She recovered decomposing human remains from the ARF (popularly referred to as the Body Farm), collected entomological evidence, observed postmortem changes, and examined the effects of fire on bone tissue through experimentation.