Dating death

The estimation of the postmortem interval (PMI), particularly late time since death, is a crucial issue when dealing with human remains. Its establishment an important task for forensic scientists it has legal implications such as identifying victim or prosecuting offender. However, dating death very complex and challenging due to amount intrinsic extrinsic factors, that may influence rate nature body decomposition. Many methods have been used estimate PMI, from classical decomposition entomological botanical more recently physics biochemical methods.
 This paper reviews current methods, focusing especially on anthropological techniques. Nevertheless, existing literature insufficient, denoting lack effective achieve accurate reliable PMI further investigation required. A holistic approach, where every element must be considered, key achieving PMI. Interdisciplinarity thus mandatory, allied capacity anthropologists denote all details.