Taphonomy experiment
Taphonomy is the study of how organisms decay. It is relevant to the question of how the body of the person who died on Nikumaroro would have decayed and been dismembered by crabs native to the island. The bones that were missing from the partial skeleton found in 1940 were presumably carried off by giant coconut crabs (Birgus latro). To conduct an efficient search for those bones, if they still exist, we need to know where to look.