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Archaeologists Join Police To Help Fight Crime
An anonymous reader writes "Forensic experts and archaeologists have teamed up in the UK to unearth secrets
of the past in the fight to trap today's criminals. Scientists
will be teaming up with archaeologists to exchange skills, experience and
techniques in what is to be a pioneering partnership."
A new breed of super crime fighting archeaologists with buggywhips and leather hats. Now all they need is a cool theme song.
For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.
The "police" and "forensic experts" are not the same thing. The police help to maintin order, to protect, to serve, etc. Forensic experts work mainly in the laboratory and in the crime scene. It was just a bit misleading reading that the police and scientists are going to work together.
A blog like any other.
The local medical examiner here in my local town is an archaeologist with some major papers and discoveries under his belt. Plus he teaches archaology at the local comunnity college. He has been doing all of this for the last 15 years.
Can anyone clue me in on how they get the finger prints from bodies that were buried from times as far back as the Roman Empire's rule?
And what are archaeologists? Laymen?
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archaeologists have been used for the biggest serial murder case in Canadian history already. Over 70 women are believed to have been killed, probably by the man who's been charged with 15 of the deaths.
Any outside technical people working with police are preferrable to the police' own experts: for being interested in geting their science right rather than getting their job done and over with - possibly by framing up the suspect.
I doubt that we will ever figure out - and I suspect that even if we did figure out we couldn't do much about it
The local medical examiner here in my local town is an archaeologist with some major papers and discoveries under his belt. Plus he teaches archaology at the local comunnity college.
So this world-renowned archeologist decided to teach at the local community college rather than the university, huh? I guess all those DeVry commericals are correct after all: "leaders in their fields" usually accept positions at laughable community colleges where they can enjoy the chance to teach pitiful dunderheads rather than go to a respected university where they would make a much higher salary and interact with excited, motivated, intelligent students.
I notice you didn't cite any of these major papers by this super-genius archeologist of yours. I guess there was just too many to list, right?
I was refering to the fact the phraseing excluded them from being scientists, my understanding is that scientist is a HUGE blanket term used for tons of fields of which I consider archaeology one.
Jesus saves, everyone else takes full damage from the fireball.
Any outside technical people working with police are preferrable to the police' own experts: for being interested in geting their science right rather than getting their job done and over with -possibly by framing up the suspect.
I doubt that we will ever figure out - and I suspect that even if we did figure out we couldn't do much about it
Indiana Jones fought the Nazis, for crissakes. Compared to this, fighting common two-bit crooks is a cakewalk.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
" notice you didn't cite any of these major papers by this super-genius archeologist of yours"
He's found the Lost Ark, the Holy Grail, Thor's Hammer, and even the One Ring. But those dratted nazis, Belloc, and the customs officials keep confiscating the results of his explorations. You'll have to take our word on it.
Also, not only does this guy do field archaeology and teach at a community college, he also talks for an hour or so each night on the "Art Bell" show about the dangers of isotropic money which has been inserted into the cash flow by space aliens.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
posting the same comment multiple times in the same thread is a tactic that's well received by your audience?
...the archaeologists get PBA cards, yellow flashing lights for their vehicles, and all the jelly donuts they can eat!
doesn't this seem like a movie setup? something involveing releaseing a demon thats been sealed for 1000 years or something.
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If you're going to start interjecting "facts" and "truths" into this conversation, I'm going to have to ask you to leave. Feel free to come back when you're willing to subscribe to the internet discussion formula. (1% correct and relevent, 3% correct but irrelevent, and 94% bullshit.) This social experiment won't work unless we're all on the same page.
"Forensic experts and archaeologists have teamed up in the UK to unearth secrets of the past in the fight to trap today's criminals."
Well the two degrees are pretty much the same. Forensic Experts are usually Forensic Anthropolgist...and Archeology is a Anthropological Degree also.
I don't see why this is so groundbreaking, Forensic Anthropologist have been teaming up with Archaeologist for years...Thats one of the jobs they can do if they decide not to work for law enforcement.
Or maybe I'm just missing the point of this post all together.
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Here is a university short course offered by an archaeology dept on forensic investigation.
The School of Conservation Sciences at Bournemouth University offers highly successful postgraduate courses in Forensic Archaeology and Forensic and Biological Anthropology, as well as an undergraduate programme in Archaeology. The Forensic Archaeology course provides valuable expertise in the search, location and recovery of buried victims and materials, and shows how archaeological principles and methods may be applied and adapted within the constraints of the criminal justice system. Forensic anthropology involves the analysis of human skeletal remains using methods developed within biological anthropology and adapting these for application within a judicial context.
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