Last Chance – Bone Search and Recovery Course
The Bone Search and Recovery Short Course will be discontinued as of tomorrow! If you’ve ever wanted to deepen your knowledge of how to search for scattered remains, now is […]
Author Archives: reluctantarchaeologist
My Biggest Writing Lesson
I’ve been writing since I was 14 years old, give or take. I wrote my first real story as a Grade 9 assignment. I wrote it on spare paper that […]
Scattered, Episode 9 – More Sounds of Dead Pig….
It seems that the previous episode with Amanda Johnson was a turning point for the Scattered podcast. That episode has an average of 200 downloads per day, so I want […]
Skeletal Remains Identification
This is more of an announcement, to get the word out…. I listened to a Just Science podcast episode about skeletal remains identification. It starts as the typical conversation in […]
Scattered, Episode 8 – A Chat with a Detective
What have we covered so far? Setting out pig carcasses for a study on searching for remains – check. Searching for said remains – check. How about applying this information […]
Scattered, Episode 7 – The Sound of Dead Pig….
You’ve read all about the searches, now listen to how we got there. Yes, it’s a bit backward, mostly because producing a podcast episode takes longer than a grizzly bear […]
On Sale! Bone Search and Recovery Course
In honour of Halloween, my collaboration with Shari Forbes, and the annual meeting of the Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology (CAPA), I’ve put my Bone Search and Recovery Short Course […]
The Smell of Dead Pig in the Morning: The Search, Pt IV
On August 4th, a team that consisted of Shari Forbes, a few Calgary Police Services Canine Unit officers and me, put out four pig carcasses in the wilds outside of […]
The Smell of Dead Pig in the Morning: The Search, Pt III
On August 4th, a team that consisted of Shari Forbes, a few Calgary Police Services Canine Unit officers and me, put out four pig carcasses in the wilds outside of […]
The Smell of Dead Pig in the Morning: The Search, Pt II
On August 4th, a team that consisted of Shari Forbes, a few Calgary Police Services Canine Unit officers and me, put out four pig carcasses in the wilds outside of […]
The Reluctant Archaeologist 