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Time Team: Interview with a Forensic Archaeologist
www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteamclub/feature3.html
Professor Margaret Cox describes her career and her role as the human
remains expert for the Channel 4 Time Team programmes.
What is Forensic Archaeology?
www.forensicarchaeology.com/Fa2/what%20is%20FA.htm
UK site maintained by an MSc student provides an overview
of the science and all of the sub-disciplines. See the Hot List for some
excellent web links.
Bone Detective Unlocks Secrets of the Dead
www.usyd.edu.au/publications/news/011019News/1910_bone.html
A humorous biography of a female forensic archaeologist who has been
locked up with hundreds of skeletons and laid in graves for days.
Forensic Science Service
www.forensic.gov.uk/forensic/entry.htm
The FSS supplies forensic science services to police forces in the
UK. Its website has a portal to many other organisations.
Forensic and Human Skeletal Archaeology
http://archaeology.about.com/cs/forensic/
A gateway site with links to articles about archaeology, skeletal
studies and the art of body-shaping from human remains.
Books
The Archaeology of Human Bones by Simon Mays (Routledge, 1998)
£22.99
An account of forensic analysis and the way it tackles major historical
and archaeological issues, with a minimum of technical jargon. Has many
revealing case studies.
Flesh and Bone: An introduction to forensic anthropology by Myriam
Nafte (Carolina Academic Press, 2000) US edition only, available through
online bookshops.
Good starting point for readers who may not have a technical grasp of
forensic terminology. The history and techniques of the science are explained,
and then case studies are used to show how mysteries have been solved.
Secrets of the Dead by Hugh Miller (Boxtree, 2000) £16.99
This book argues that our understanding of history has changed as a result
of the use of forensic archaeology. Forensic methodology and tests are
explored as well as the historical implications of these discoveries.
More Secrets of the Dead by Hugh Miller (Channel 4, 2001) £14.99
Miller uses five case studies to show how the bodies of our ancestors
hold the answers to many age-old mysteries and how the application of
modern forensic methods to archaeological research can help reveal secrets
of the dead.
The Bone Detectives: How forensic anthropologists solve crimes and
uncover mysteries of the dead by Donna M Jackson and Charlie Fellenbaum
(Little, Brown, 1996) US edition only, available through online bookshops.
A book for young readers, with colour photos and puzzles, this is a great
introduction to forensic science and forensic archaeology, explaining
how past mysteries are being solved.
The Bone Lady by Mary H Manheim (Penguin, 2000) £7.99
In this memoir, a forensic anthropologist and bio-archaeologist –
known as The Bone Lady to her colleagues – tells stories about her
work.
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