Forensic anthropology and archaeology, undergraduate course

This course offers students an introductory training in the fields of Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology. Students will be trained in recovering forensic evidence using archaeological methods, both practically (as part of field training) and theoretically. The basics of human biological profile reconstruction will also be taught in a lab setting. We will cover a variety of topics that pertain to crime scene investigation, including how to identify skeletonised human remains. This course focuses solely on medico-legal contexts of human remains, with examples from domestic and international cases. Students will gain a set of skills necessary, and appropriate in terms of the requirements of the Australian medico-legal professions, for the practical management and excavation of a body/crime scene.