Should I study for the MSc Forensic Archaeology or MSc Forensic and Biological Anthropology?
If you wish to apply archaeological techniques to the search, location and excavation of human remains at crime scenes and in international investigations, then you should opt for the MSc Forensic Archaeology (FA). We provide a background to the English legal system, International humanitarian law and crime scene protocols, forensic geophysics, and the application of archaeological techniques to a crime scene as well as units in forensic anthropology (human remains analysis). The latter is one of the pre-requisites of the newly established Forensic Archaeology section of the Central Register for Forensic Practitioners (CRFP). The MSc Forensic and Biological Anthropology (FBA) teaches in-depth, the skills you will need to examine human skeletal remains recovered from a crime scene, to allow for a biological and personal identification. Although you should attend the scene to aid with the retrieval of the human remains, your primary job will be in the lab. The FBA course also provides st
