Kara Adams – The Conversation

Sub-frame components of the automated taphonomic data collection apparatus as set up for the summer 2025 experimental deployment, with an untraumatised pig body. C De Bruyn, D Finaughty, and Cape4Taph UCT research group

September 3, 2025

How do bodies decompose? Cape Town forensic scientists are pushing frontiers of new detection methods

Victoria Gibbon, University of Cape Town; Devin Alexander Finaughty, University of the Witwatersrand, and Kara Adams, University of Cape Town

New innovations in understanding how a dead body breaks down can be scaled globally.

Establishing time-since-death is key in forensic investigations. gorodenkoff

August 7, 2024

Clothed pig carcasses are revealing the secrets of mummification – South African study provides insights for forensic scientists

Kara Adams, University of Cape Town and Victoria Gibbon, University of Cape Town

Pigs, specifically those weighing around 60kg, are useful in human decomposition studies.

Contact Kara for