Northern BC is over half-a-million square kilometers of land but only has a population under 250,000.
As the consulting forensic anthropologist in the North for over two decades, Dr. Richard Lazenby, an Anthropology Professor at the University of Northern British Columbia, has worked on a number of cases in the region.
“Death is an experience that we will all share, and for most of us it will be fairly mundane – old age, disease – and very likely in bed,” explains Dr. Lazenby.
“But for some, through their own actions or those of others, death may come suddenly, sadly, and secretly.
“The task of forensic anthropology is to help unlock that secret, to restore that person in death to their proper place in the social fabric, and to assist authorities seeking justice.”
Dr. Lazenby will be doing a talk on Wednesday, November 1st, called Death in the Bush: Forensic Anthropology in the Rural Remote to discuss his career within the field.
Some of the cases he will talk about are Before DNA We Had Toenails; The Amputation That Wasn’t; and Ashes to Ashes.
The presentation will begin run from 7-9pm at ArtSpace in Prince George.
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