Forensic Archaeology - Mass Grave Excavation Cranfield University

Overview

What you will study

On successful completion of the Forensic Archaeology - Mass Grave Excavation course offered by Cranfield University you will be able to:

• Adapt their methodologies to a single or mass grave environment

• Understand the role of the forensic archaeologist and anthropologist within a forensic and criminal investigation team in a mass fatality investigation framework

• Recover surface and buried evidence as well as human remains as part of a wider forensic investigation

• Interpret non - material, forensic archaeological evidence in mass grave structures, such as tool marks

• Interpret the site history in order to reconstruct the series of events that lead to the existence of the grave and the positioning of the victims and evidence.