Dr. Alexandria Young is a forensic archaeologist. She obtained her PhD with the study entitled, “An Investigation of patterns of mammalian scavenging in relation to vertebrate skeletal remains in a Northwestern European context: forensic applications”, from Bournemouth University in 2013. In this episode we talk about:
- Alexandria’s journey to doing a PhD on scattered and scavenged remains
- The existence and evidence of scavenging hierarchies
- Evidence that training in species-typical scavenging behaviour can dramatically increase discovery rates of remains
- The story behind scattered and scavenged remains is a gap in research
- The inclusionary and interdisciplinary perspective of archaeology and its potential to contribute to forensic science
You can find her publications here:
PhD thesis: http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/21203/
“In publication” versions of journal articles:
http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/24652/1/Young_A_BiteMarks_Paper_US_revised.pdf
http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/23289/1/Young_A_Search_Paper_2015_April.pdf
http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/22463/4/Young_A_policesurvey.pdf
http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/22464/4/Young_A_canidmustelidscavenging_Paper_July2013_us.pdf
http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/24653/4/Young_A_Scavenging_Paper_2013_US.pdf
Do you have a search story to share? I’d love to hear it.
Yvonne Kjorlien 
very interesting…shows there is so much more to do
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