Forensic anthropologist Sue Black: ‘The body is really just layers upon layers of memory’ | Forensic science
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on September 23, 2022
From a solitary set of finger bones to a fragment of skull in a washing machine, the cases Dame Sue Black has helped solve may seem too gruesome for the joyful spectacle that is the Royal Institution Christmas lectures.
But it is not the stuff of nightmares that Black, one of the world’s leading forensic anthropologists, will be exploring as she gives Britain’s most prestigious public science lectures this winter.
Instead she will be investigating the myriad ways in which our bodies are tied . . .