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BU’s Alexandria Young assists Police with identifying human remains
Alexandria Young was called in by the police last week as a forensic archaeologist to assist with the identification and interpretation of animal scavenging of human remains and to assist in the search of remain, which were found off the A23 in Sussex. The remains were featured in the media, the links to which can [...]
Dr Martin Smith on Mastermind
Lecturer in Forensic Archaeology, Dr Martin Smith appeared on Episode 16 of Mastermind. He came second on the night, answering 14 questions on his specialist subject Motorhead, and 13 general knowledge questions . After the two rounds he was joint first, narrowly missing out on the top spot because his closest competitor had passed on [...]
Forensics on The One Show
On 15 Feb Simon Bozeman, reporter from The One Show came to BU with his team (a camera man/producer and assistant) for an exclusive tour of the new Crime Scene Training Facility and of course to make a report using the setting. Using the news hook of the Forensic Science Service (FSS) closing, Simon [...]
‘The earliest Englishman was nothing more than a cheap fraud’
In the centenary year of the discovery of the hoax, Dr Miles Russell, Senior Lecturer in prehistoric and Roman Archaeology has spoken to the Observer about the Piltdown Man. Between 1908 and 1912 human skull fragments, an ape-like jaw and flints were found close to the Sussex village of Piltdown. The discovery was, at the [...]
Rudy Gozlan in The Times
Professor Rudy Gozlan’s research about the Rosette Agent threatening Salmon stocks has appeared in The Times. The full story can be read here
Archaeology Group Meeting
The Archaeology Group meeting scheduled for Wednesday 1 February will take the form of a seminar presentation by Vincent Ard; all academic staff, researchers, and research students across the School of Applied Sciences are cordially invited. Vincent Ard is a Post-Doc researcher who is with us throughout 2012; he is funded by the prestigious French [...]
Professor Tim Darvill’s lecture ‘Stonehenge and Merlin’s Magic Circles’ goes Stateside
On 7 December Professor Darvill will be presenting his lecture ‘Merlin’s Magic Circles: Stonehenge and the use of the Preseli Bluestones’ at the Penn Museum in Pennsylvania. Stonehenge’s history dates back to 3000BC when 80 pillars of Bluestone rock were transported 250km from the Preseli Hills in southwest Wales, to Salisbury Plain. In his lecture [...]
Dr Kate Welham interviewed by ITV Westcountry & Meridian
Dr Kate Welham was interviewed by the lovely Duncan Sleightholme today during an early morning visit to Stonehenge. She told him all about her new application, Google Under-the-Earth: Seeing Beneath Stonehenge, which allows users to uncover the site’s exciting archaeology via a new layer in Google Earth. You can catch Kate from 18:30 this evening [...]
BU student appears on Channel 4’s Time Team
MSc Forensic Archaeology student Samantha Buchanan appeared on last night’s episode of Time Team. The first episode of the new series, ‘Brunel’s Last Launch’, was based in the East End of London, in which archaeologists including Samantha tried to discover why the launch of the SS Great Eastern in 1858 was such a disaster. The [...]
Mass graves in Libya
Bournemouth University’s Senior Lecturer in Forensic Archaeology, Ian Hanson, has featured in a New Scientist article about mass graves in Libya. An estimated 5000 people went missing during Gaddafi’s dictatorship and, following his death last week, the country’s transitional government is preparing to exhume and identify bodies in mass graves. Speaking to New Scientist journalist [...]
