Why archaeologists at crime scenes?

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Army formed by Patrice Georges, to discover bodies. © Denis Gliksman / Inrap

By: Caroline Lachowsky

Why archaeologists at crime scenes and how can their excavation techniques to find and identify human remains from the past help to solve criminal investigations of the present?

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Why and how to put the skills of archaeologists (acquired in all areas, their approaches, their excavation techniques and identification of human remains from the past) at the service of the resolution of criminal investigations of the present? How to develop this forensic archeology, this forensic archeology, which has proven itself in Anglo-Saxon countries (as well in judicial and criminal investigations as in war crimes or in the heart of disasters) for research and identification of missing persons?

Program on forensic archeology (following the Archeology and judicial inquiries symposium organized by Inrap) with Patrice Georges (researcher in forensic archeology) and Élodie Cabot (archaeo-anthropologist).

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