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Friends and colleagues: Archaeology is addressing the need for justice in
gathering evidence about human rights violations around the world. We
feature this form of applied research in Archaeology Serving Justice, our
new audio interview featuring forensic archaeologist Mercedes Doretti on our
nonprofit streaming-media Web site, The Archaeology Channel
(http://www.archaeologychannel.org).
Since 1984, the Argentine organization Equipo Argentino de Antropologia
Forense (EAAF), or Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, has applied the
forensic sciences, particularly forensic anthropology and forensic
archaeology, to the investigation of human rights violations. In this
interview with TAC's Adam Fish, recorded via telephone on 15 January 2005,
Moretti tells the remarkable story of the EAAF, its origins, its activities,
and its future. The work involves genetics, ballistics, radiology, and
computer sciences. Using these tools and techniques, EAAF exhumes bodies to
establish the cause of death and to identify skeletal remains of victims.
Through its work, EAAF assists the relatives of the victims to recover the
remains of their disappeared loved ones in many countries around the world.
This work contributes to the historical reconstruction of atrocities that
offending governments seek to minimize, hide, or deny. EAAF's
investigations produce criminal evidence useful in the courts and have
proven critical in the pursuit of justice.
This and other programs are available on TAC for your use and enjoyment. We
urge you to support this public service by participating in our Membership
(http://www.archaeologychannel.org/member.html) and Underwriting
(http://www.archaeologychannel.org/sponsor.shtml) programs. Only with your
help can we continue and enhance this nonprofit public-education and
visitor-supported service. We also welcome new content partners as we reach
out to the world community.
Please forward this message to others who may be interested.
Richard M. Pettigrew, Ph.D., RPA
President and Executive Director
Archaeological Legacy Institute
http://www.archaeologychannel.org
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