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Teri’s educational background includes a BSc in Anatomical Sciences
from Manchester University and an MSc in Osteology, Palaeopathology and Funerary
Archaeology from the University of Sheffield. Her MSc research project at
the Medico-Legal centre was on forensic facial reconstruction and the effects
of ageing. Past work includes osteological analysis and cataloguing of skeletal
collections for the University of Sheffield and assisting with training for
international police and doctors highlighting the role of facial reconstruction
in forensic analysis. Teri currently heads the Identification and Reconstruction
department at the National Missing Persons Helpline and is responsible for
producing various forms of forensic artwork, publicity and database searches
in cases of unidentified persons. She has received full training, in both
the UK and the USA, in techniques of age progression, image enhancement, facial
reconstruction, Efit composite creation and cognitive interview techniques.
I
graduated from UCL Institute of Archaeology with an MSc in Forensic Archaeological
Sciences. My dissertation was an investigation of human remains from the 18th
century Anatomical School in Craven Street. Since then I have carried out
osteoarchaeological analysis over the past 5 years for several projects, both
in Britain and in Europe. These include human remains from Compton Basset,
Avebury and Spitalfields, London. More recently I have been involved for two
seasons in an ongoing research project run by Dr. Simon Hillson at UCL with
the collaboration of the Museum of Astypalia in Greece. This involves the
excavation, detailed recording and analysis of neonate remains from large
amphora dating to 600BC. I was employed as an osteoarchaeologist for On-Site
Archaeology where I was responsible for the excavation, analysis and report
writing of all human remains and faunal material recovered by the unit in
York. I then went on to work as Research Osteologist at the Centre for Human
Bioarchaeology at the Museum of London, where I was involved in the analysing
and recording onto database the Museum's entire collection of human remains
for a project funded by the Wellcome Trust. The aim of this ground-breaking
project is to provide a standardised skeletal accession database, making the
osteological and contextual data readily available to future researchers.
In January 2008 I was awarded Wellcome Trust funding for a PhD based at UCL,
London where I am currently carrying out research on post-medieval remains,
deposited as the result of some of the earliest dissection practices for anatomical
research in London.
I
have worked in field archaeology professionally since 1996, when I graduated
from Bradford University with a BSc in Archaeological Sciences. Since then
I have been employed by a number of units throughout Britain and Ireland.
After obtaining an MSc with Distinction in Osteology, Palaeopathology and
Funerary Archaeology, I was employed as an osteologist, working on the excavation
of the medieval cemetery of St. Mary Spital. Here I was responsible for supervising
the processing and packing of 10,500 skeletons as well as database management,
giving talks to the public and school children as well as giving interviews
to the press. I have produced numerous reports, both archaeological (as a
supervisor for MoLAS) and osteological for several archaeological units and
museums. Work ranges from assessment to publication level on inhumation and
cremation burials of all periods. In addition, as a member of BAHID and a
registered forensic practitioner with CRFP, I have acted as a consultant forensic
archaeologist alongside both the City and Metropolitan Police Forces on a
number of forensic cases, ranging from single bone identification through
to full-site excavation and the production of anthropological data to assist
with victim identification. I have also assisted in 'writing off' potential
crime scenes where skeletal material was demonstrated to be archaeological
in nature. I have given a number of lectures to students at Birbeck, Royal
Holloway and London Metropolitan University and have run a day school at the
University of Essex Centre for Lifelong Learning. I am currently producing
assessments and reports for a number of units in the south of England through
the Museum of London Specialist Services. Recent and current projects include
a large, early Medieval cemetery assemblage from Co. Meath, Roman inhumations
and cremated bone assemblages from Spitalfields, numerous small City sites,
prehistoric cremated bone burials from Essex and Anglo-Saxon remains from
Kent. In 2004 I also was elected as the Museum representative on the BABAO
commitee.
I've
been working in field of osteoarchaeology for the past ten years after graduating
from the University of Sheffield with an MSc in Osteology, Palaeopathology
and Funerary Archaeology. I worked as an Osteological Assistant and an Archaeologist
on the Spitalfields project in London, involving the excavation, processing,
cataloguing and assessment of over 10,000 skeletons. I have also worked for
English Heritage excavating Anglo-Saxon burials and also giving talks to school
groups about the excavation and analysis of human remains. Subsequently, I
worked at Worcestershire County Council Archaeology Services, giving on-site
osteological advice and carrying out post-excavation analysis and then went
on to become involved in the analysis of a large post-medieval urban skeletal
population form St. Martin's-in-the-Bullring at the University of Birmingham
(now published as an Oxbow Monograph). Since leaving Birmingham, I have worked
as a Research Osteoarchaeologist at the Centre for Human Bioarchaeology at
the Museum of London, funded by the Wellcome Trust, analysing human skeletal
remains from the Royal Mint site. I have more recently been carrying out freelance
osteoarchaeological analysis for Mercian Archaeology and Worcestershire County
Council Archaeology Services, Herefordshire Archaeology and Archaeological
Project Services involving both inhumated and cremated human remains from
all archaeological periods. I have also been involved in producing up-to-date
field guides for field staff working with human remains published on BAJR
and carrying out research to contribute towards forthcoming publications currently
being produced by archaeological field units. My latest projects include the
analysis of approximately 100 inhumated and cremated skeletons that are the
focus of a research project led by Dr. Becky Gowland at the University of
Durham and the re-analysis of remains from a potential massacre context, excavated
from the Iron Age hillfort site of Bredon Hill, a project that was recently
awarded funding by BABAO and is overseen by Derek Hurst, WHEAS.
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