BENJAMIN NEIL Co-Director Expedition Osteologist Site director, 2006 Webmaster Research Student: MPhil-PhD Osseous remains and cave taphonomy in the Yorkshire Dales MSc Forensic Archaeology Bournemouth University November 2000. BA Archaeology and Anthropology University of Wales, Lampeter July 1998.

Areas of interest are trauma and pathology, depositional and accumulation processes of skeletal material (in relation to cave environments - e.g. bio-turbation and consequential spatial movement) recording methodologies for commingled remains, taphonomic history and post-mortem modification.

Geographic areas of interest are the Black Sea Littoral, specifically that of Helenistic Colchis and the Medieval and Meroitic periods of Sudan.

As the osteologist for the Anglo-Georgian Expedition, I train students in the excavation, recording and lifting of skeletons and their associated contexts; further, they are guided on the best practice for cleaning the skeletal material and its immediate conservation.

I am a member of the British Association of Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO), the Institute of Field archaeologists (PIFA), the British School of Archaeology in Ankara, and the Sudan Archaeological Research Society. In 1997, I received my Private Pilots Licence and at some point hope to conduct some aerial photography over Nokalakevi.

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