*Course Announcement* Forensic Field Course July 5-27, 2017

The 2017 UVic Forensic Anthropology field-course is a GO!

Registration opens in March and space is limited.

This outdoor field course combines two methodological approaches to excavation and recovery from both forensic science and archaeology with a focus on documentation and collection of relevant crime scene evidence and is offered over a four-week period in July, 2017. This course will combine in-class instruction and outdoor processing of clandestine burials and will cover topics on: crime-scene protocols and record-keeping; establishing secure scene perimeters; mapping methods (high and low tech); establishing a grid; excavation techniques (horizontal vs. bisect approaches); stratification; collecting soils, tool marks, and other evidence from the grave; casting soil imprints; taphonomy and taphonomic inference; photography; collecting evidence; maintaining chain of evidence; and scene interpretation reconstructing activity relating to the death and/or deposition of the victim, as well as post-depositional events.