Forensic anthropology, bioarchaeology, and forensic science in the news.
University of Winchester archaeologists who have been working to identify the remains of King Alfred the Great (848-899) held a press conference a short time a go. They revealed the bones exhumed from a grave at St. Bartholomew’s Church in… Read More ›
In September 2012 construction workers renovating a townhouse in Edinburgh made a gruesome discovery in the garden…human bones in a shallow grave. According to The Scotsman, researchers now think it’s likely these remains may belong to the unfortunate victims of… Read More ›
The Siberian Times reports that archaeologists have been excavating a Bronze Age necropolis, made up of about 600 tombs, in Staryi Tartas village of the Novosibirsk region (map) in Russia. Researchers were able identify these graves as belonging to the… Read More ›
UC Santa Barbara bioarchaeologist Danielle Kurin and her archaeological team unearthed the remains of individuals from burial caves in the Andean province of Andahuaylas in south-central Peru that date to the Wari empire between AD 1000-1250. Among the 32 crania… Read More ›
Siberian archaeologists excavating in the Novosibirsk region (map) of Russia have found a necropolis containing about 600 graves believed to belong to the Andronovo culture. In this necropolis are dozens of burials containing the skeletal remains of couples embracing each other, estimated… Read More ›
Durham university archaeologists are in the process of excavating the bodies from a centuries old mass grave at the city’s World Heritage Site. In November, during renovation work at the University’s Palace Green Library, workers initially found the remains of… Read More ›
The Wilts and Gloucester Standard reports that owners of a North Cotswolds pub in the UK have discovered the grave of an Iron Age skeleton buried under land they were hoping to turn into a parking lot. Nicknamed “Rusty”, the skeleton… Read More ›
Forensic workers will suspend exhumations during the winter months at a mass grave in near Tomasica in Bosnia, and will resume in the spring. Investigators believe it is the largest mass grave found so far from the 1992-95 war, with… Read More ›
In recent years, Mexican drug cartels have committed numerous massacres while fighting for control of smuggling routes into the U.S. This month alone, investigators have recovered at least 54 bodies from mass graves in three states in Mexico. One of… Read More ›
Earlier this month local divers in Indonesia discovered the wreckage of a WWII-era Nazi U-boat off the coast of Java. Thanks to the tip that they received from these divers, researchers from the National Archeology Center in Indonesia have discovered… Read More ›
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