Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology
“The dead may be thrust with no durable equipment into the earth; they may be accompanied by the treasury of Sutton Hoo, or by the sumptuous array of attendants as at Ur; they may go naked to St Peter, or with a harem to Paradise.”
Mortimer Wheeler, Archaeology from the earth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954, 93)
In life and in death people are people in a way that owes much to our origins amongst the world’s super-family of primates.
Here we focus on the application of archaeological and anthropological approaches to the investigation of ancient burials, human and primate behaviour, and also the service of the courts and assisting agencies in the resolution of twentieth and twenty-first century serious crimes, including murder and genocide, working closely with the Centre for Forensic Science.
