AUTHOR INFORMATION

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Christopher Alexander Briggs

Christopher Alexander Briggs completed his BSc in 1970 and PhD in 1974. He was appointed to the position of lecturer in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Melbourne in 1975 and is currently Associate Professor. He became staff anatomist and consultant in physical anthropology/osteology at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine in 1991 and is Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Forensic Medicine at Monash University.

He has assisted in crime scene examination and investigation of skeletal and otherwise unidentified remains, and in cases of homicide, and has given expert evidence in court. He has been a consultant physical anthropologist with the United Nations in East Timor and has participated in the recovery of skeletal remains from archaeological sites in Turkey and Britain.

Dr Briggs...