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Kar Burns is a forensic anthropologist presently living in Colombia where she works with a organization dedicated to helping families of persons disappeared due to the internal conflict. Kar usually teaches at the University of Georgia, but is now a Fulbright Scholar at the University of the Andes in Bogota. She teaches human osteology as well as recovery and identification of human remains in criminal and human rights investigations. She is author of the Forensic Anthropology Training Manual (1999, 2007), and she is one of the authors of Amelia Earhart’s Shoes, Is the Mystery Solved? (2001). In the [[Niku]] project, Kar’s main interest is in the scientific aspects of human decomposition and recovery in the Pacific atoll environment. | '''Kar Raney Burns''' is a forensic anthropologist presently living in Colombia where she works with a organization dedicated to helping families of persons disappeared due to the internal conflict. Kar usually teaches at the University of Georgia, but is now a Fulbright Scholar at the University of the Andes in Bogota. She teaches human osteology as well as recovery and identification of human remains in criminal and human rights investigations. She is author of the Forensic Anthropology Training Manual (1999, 2007), and she is one of the authors of Amelia Earhart’s Shoes, Is the Mystery Solved? (2001). In the [[Niku]] project, Kar’s main interest is in the scientific aspects of human decomposition and recovery in the Pacific atoll environment. | ||
* Member of several expeditions: | * Member of several expeditions: | ||
** [[Niku IIII]] | ** [[Niku IIII]] | ||
Revision as of 19:57, 20 October 2009
Kar Raney Burns is a forensic anthropologist presently living in Colombia where she works with a organization dedicated to helping families of persons disappeared due to the internal conflict. Kar usually teaches at the University of Georgia, but is now a Fulbright Scholar at the University of the Andes in Bogota. She teaches human osteology as well as recovery and identification of human remains in criminal and human rights investigations. She is author of the Forensic Anthropology Training Manual (1999, 2007), and she is one of the authors of Amelia Earhart’s Shoes, Is the Mystery Solved? (2001). In the Niku project, Kar’s main interest is in the scientific aspects of human decomposition and recovery in the Pacific atoll environment.
- Member of several expeditions: