Why archaeologists at crime scenes?

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Army formed by Patrice Georges, to discover bodies.

© Denis Gliksman / Inrap

By: Caroline Lachowsky

1 min

Why archaeologists at crime scenes?

How can their excavation techniques to find and identify human remains from the past help solve the criminal investigations of the present?

(Replay)

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Why and how should the skills of archaeologists (acquired in all fields, their approaches, their excavation techniques and identification of human remains from the past) be put to the service of solving the criminal investigations of the present?

How to develop this forensic archeology, this forensic archeology, which has proved its worth in Anglo-Saxon countries (both in judicial and criminal investigations as in war crimes or in the heart of catastrophes) for research and identification of the missing?

Program on forensic archeology (following the Archeology and Forensic Investigations conference organized by Inrap) with

(researcher in forensic archeology) and 

 (archaeo-anthropologist).

Replay of the broadcast of 02/04/2020

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