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  • Excavating Eboracum’s Common People
    27 . 04 . 2018

    Excavating Eboracum’s Common People

    Excavations on the site of a former hotel uncover 1,800-year-old residents

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  • Dickson Laboratory Hosts Police Scotland Dog Branch Exercise
    17 . 03 . 2016

    Dickson Laboratory Hosts Police Scotland Dog Branch Exercise

    Jennifer Miller, principle scientist at Dickson Laboratory, visited the Police Scotland dog branch last week to give input on the role of bio-archaeology in the Police searches.  Following this visit, the Victim Recovery dogs and handlers on the course visited the Dickson Laboratory to see what the team at Dickson Laboratory do.

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  • New Technology Helps Piece Together Story Of York’s Roman ‘Gladiators’
    19 . 01 . 2016

    New Technology Helps Piece Together Story Of York’s Roman ‘Gladiators’

    New technology helps piece together story of York’s Roman ‘Gladiators’ Cutting edge genome technology, hailed as being the next step […]

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  • Extremely Rare Skeleton And Coffin Go On Display At JORVIK Viking Centre
    02 . 12 . 2015

    Extremely Rare Skeleton And Coffin Go On Display At JORVIK Viking Centre

    An extremely rare skeletal find joins the displays at JORVIK Viking Centre this month, as one of the Swinegate skeletons, uncovered during archaeological excavations in 1990, goes on public display for the first time.

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  • Britain’s Oldest Brain.
    21 . 01 . 2015

    Britain’s Oldest Brain.

    In Archaeology it is very rare to find any soft tissue remains: no skin, no flesh, no hair and definitely no brains. However, in 2009, archaeologists from York Archaeological Trust found something very surprising at a site in Heslington, York.

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  • YAT’s Dickson Laboratory for Bio-Archaeology helps prosecutors in high profile cases.
    17 . 10 . 2014

    YAT’s Dickson Laboratory for Bio-Archaeology helps prosecutors in high profile cases.

    York Archaeological Trust’s Dickson Lab for Bio-Archaeology, based in Glasgow, provide assistance to around 25 forensic cases UK-wide annually.

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