Reader in Biological and Forensic Anthropology
Forensic human identification, Forensic taphonomy, Palaeoanthropology, Forensic trauma analysis, Geometric morphometric methods
I am Reader in Biological and Forensic Anthropology, in the School of Forensic and Applied Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, UK. My broad research interests concern the application of multi-disciplinary forensic sciences (anthropology, archaeology and taphonomy) into current medico-legal practice and the Evolutionary Anthropology of the deep past. I have extensive forensic casework experience in anthropology and forensic archaeology.
With over 25 years’ archaeological and palaeoanthropolgical field experience, I have practical and research interests in human evolution during the Lower and Middle Pleistocene, the Earlier and Middle Stone Ages of Africa, and skeletal trauma with an emphasis on inter-personal violence, and in resulting skeletal trauma from sharp, blunt and projec
more...I am Reader in Biological and Forensic Anthropology, in the School of Forensic and Applied Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, UK. My broad research interests concern the application of multi-disciplinary forensic sciences (anthropology, archaeology and taphonomy) into current medico-legal practice and the Evolutionary Anthropology of the deep past. I have extensive forensic casework experience in anthropology and forensic archaeology.
With over 25 years’ archaeological and palaeoanthropolgical field experience, I have practical and research interests in human evolution during the Lower and Middle Pleistocene, the Earlier and Middle Stone Ages of Africa, and skeletal trauma with an emphasis on inter-personal violence, and in resulting skeletal trauma from sharp, blunt and projectile weapons. I am also focussed on understanding and quantifying the effects of burning on bone – from the early hominin use of fire, through funerary ritual and body disposal in archaeological and ethnographic contexts, and in forensic and human identification scenarios. Most recently I have applied forensic taphonomic analyses to fossil assemblages of Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi to understand patterns of bone breakage and trauma in natural death traps versus deliberate body disposal, and the evolution of hominin mortuary practices.
PhD Biological Anthropology, University of Liverpool, 2004
BSc (Hons) Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, 1993
