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Country of origin
  
United Kingdom

No. of seasons
  
2

First episode date
  
6 May 2010

Network
  
BBC Two

8.6/10
IMDb

Theme music composer
  
Rob Lord

Original language(s)
  
English

No. of episodes
  
8

Final episode date
  
21 July 2011

Genre
  
Television documentary

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Directed by
  
Mike Taylor Neil Ferguson Harvey Lilley

Narrated by
  
Laurence Fox, Stephen Mangan

Similar
  
Time Team, Cold Case Files, Digging for Britain, The Great British Story: A P, Finding the Fallen

History Cold Case is a British documentary television series in which scientists use modern forensic techniques to investigate ancient remains. Two series of History Cold Case aired on BBC Two between 6 May 2010 and 21 July 2011. The television series is recommended for age 17 and above due to graphic images and maturity.

Contents

Overview

Anthropologist Sue Black and her team at the Centre for Anatomy & Human Identification (CAHID) at the University of Dundee investigate human remains. They use forensic science, including radiocarbon dating, DNA and isotope analysis, to find out about the life and death of each set of remains, which range in date from the Bronze Age to the Victorian era. In some cases, they search through historic records to try to locate a name. In each episode, the team travels to a different location in Great Britain and set up a mobile lab to do their work. At the conclusion, they present their findings, including facial reconstruction, to the local community.

Cast

  • Sue Black, forensic anthropologist
  • Xanthé Mallett, forensic anthropologist and criminologist
  • Caroline Wilkinson, anthropologist who creates facial reconstructions
  • Wolfram Meier-Augenstein, expert in isotope analysis (series 1)
  • References

    History Cold Case Wikipedia


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