Paton, Graeme (22 January 2012). "Alice Roberts hits out at science 'geeks' ". The Daily Telegraph. Yeah, you really got that sense of excitement from Alice of just applying this, you know, what she called a disruptive technology, to these really old ancient myths and these different forms of knowledge colliding. And I also found it interesting that she was talking about the act of burial and what we can learn about that being qs much to do with life, as it is to do with death, but also that it might say something very distinctive about our species, because I didn't realise that animals didn't bury their dead. I sort of had a notion of the elephant graveyard. And obviously, as Alice says, chimpanzees mourn. Elephants mourn. But they don't actually bury their dead. The native life, is far from the idyllic, pastoral picture archaeology and modern documentaries tend to paint. Can you imagine an existence of years of puss seeping abscessed teeth slowly rotting through your mandible? How technically/socially 'creative' could people be in a general state of horrible health at 25 years old? It's 100's of generations suffering the same. I don't think they got used to it. The reality of multiple, miserable, slow-death diseases is in the bones simply had to direct the trajectory of civilization. Life was a state of existence with a disease, bad teeth, crippling, broken bones healed and unhealed (the Hunter of Amesbury had lost his knee cap and recovered with a horribly crippled leg), heavy burden bone scars. It's all pause for reflection from whence when came. It's really difficult, isn't it? Because I think I mean, I've included that in there. And I do wonder if there's some kind of remembrance of that as a hill of sin? Because recent genetic evidence has shown that a man buried in Newgrange is the incestuous son of either a parent and a child, or two siblings. So you’ll never know if it's a parent and child or two siblings, we just know it was two first degree relatives.

Roberts enjoys watercolour painting, surfing, wild swimming, cycling, gardening and pub quizzes. [5] Roberts is an organiser of the Cheltenham Science Festival and school outreach programmes within the University of Bristol's Medical Sciences Division. [7] In March 2007, she hosted the Bristol Medical School's charity dance show Clicendales 2007, to raise funds for the charity CLIC Sargent. [82] Human anatomy: the definitive visual guide. Dorling Kindersley, 2014. ISBN 9780241292082, OCLC 1010946584 Robson-Brown, Kate; Roberts, Alice (2007). BABAO 2004: Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology, University of Bristol. British Archaeological Reports. Oxford, England: Archaeopress. ISBN 978-1-4073-0035-1. Professor Alice Roberts on the Rutland Roman Villa dig while filming Digging For Britain (Image: BBC/Rare TV)

If you are considering buying this book, you will presumably be expecting an analysis of burial rituals and what they may or may not tell us about our ancestors. The main topic is covered in sufficient for the armchair archaeologist and is accessible without descending into a dry, academic, study. In the first episode, Dr Alice Roberts looks at how our skeleton reveals our incredible evolutionary journey. As an aside, not in her book, I note that social gender categories often follow linguistic gender categories. Linguistic gender is the way that words are tied together by categorising the things they represent, thus nouns are tied to pronouns by gender, and both are tied to adjectives in many European languages. The language of the Beaker People was a variant of Proto-Indo-European, which had two linguistic genders -- animate and inanimate. Perhaps the important divide for the Beaker people was into animate/singular and neuter/collective, rather than owned wealth or male/female?)

a b c "University of Bristol: Directory of Experts". University of Bristol . Retrieved 27 May 2009. Deacon, Michael (5 May 2009). "Interview: Alice Roberts on The Incredible Human Journey". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 17 May 2009 . Retrieved 16 May 2009. Lidz, Franz (12 February 2021). "Was Stonehenge a 'Secondhand' Monument?". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 18 February 2021 . Retrieved 19 February 2021. She is a pescatarian, [77] "a confirmed atheist" [78] and former president of Humanists UK, beginning her three-and-a-half-year term in January 2019. [79] [28] She is now a vice president of the organisation. [80] Her children were assigned a faith school due to over-subscription of her local community schools; she campaigns against state-funded religious schools, citing her story as an example of the problems perpetuated by faith schools. [81] RT 3393 – 10–16 Dec 1988 (South) BLUE PETER – 30 Years – Alice Roberts with her Blue Peter picture". Radio Times (3393). 10 December 1988. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013 – via Kelly Books and Magazines.

Credits

In 2011, Roberts was elected an honorary fellow of the British Science Association, [22] and a fellow of the Royal Society of Biology. [63] In 2014, she was selected by the Science Council as one of their leading UK practising scientists. [64] During 2014, she was President of The Association for Science Education, [64] and presented the Morgan-Botti lecture. [65] And there are some findings as well that you write about that hint about a past we might prefer to forget. Like cannibalism.