The growing volume of cold cases where unresolved crime took place has generated interest in ‘body farms’, where levels of human decay are assessed in relation to context and elapsed time. Discussion considers buried environments that offer conditions that can both accelerate or contain decay, and also the effects of animal scavenging and surface scatter. In the UK, pigs have been used as human analogues, and much research has been conducted using various geophysical techniques to detect buried human remains at different stages of decay. The session concludes with an overview of the developing role of archaeological techniques in fire investigation.
Due to the nature of this series of Rhind lectures, some of the content may be upsetting to some viewers. There will be clear warnings if graphic images are to be shown on screen, and these will not be recorded or shown during the live broadcast.
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The Rhind Lectures 2021, “Untimely Ends” are presented by Professor John Hunter OBE BA PhD FSA FSAScot MCIfA FCSFS. Recorded in the National Museums Scotland auditorium by Mallard Productions Ltd. Sponsored by AOC Archaeology Group.
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The Rhind Lectures 2021:
Archaeologists have always been fond of the dead. Their study enables us to learn about past societies and gives us free rein to air views and theories about what went on, what people believed in, and how the dead were disposed of and commemorated. It would seem that we tend to think about the past in a different manner to the way we think about the present. This year's Rhind Lecture series will try and link the past and the present in an unusual way.
The Lecturer:
Professor John Hunter was appointed Professor of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Birmingham in 1996. As well as undertaking archaeological research and survey in Scottish islands for over 35 years, he developed forensic archaeology in 1988 and has worked with police forces in the UK and overseas ever since. He has written over a dozen academic books, including three on forensics. His most recent publications, Ritual in Bronze Age Grave Goods and The Small Isles, on historic landscapes, appeared in 2013 and 2016 respectively. His current interests concern island landscapes, social change, and diaspora. He was awarded an OBE for services to scholarship.
