Ancestors: A prehistory of Britain in seven burials

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Professor Alice Roberts was the first recipient of the Royal Society’s David Attenborough award for Public Engagement in 2020. An anatomist and biological anthropologist, Alice made her television debut in the UK in 2001 and since then has written and presented a number of popular TV programmes and series. Alice has been the Professor of Public Engagement at the University of Birmingham since 2012. She has also written eleven books ranging across anatomy, evolutionary anthropology and archaeology. Watching this event online After graduating, Roberts worked as a junior doctor with the National Health Service in South Wales for 18 months. In 1998 she left clinical medicine and worked as an anatomy demonstrator at the University of Bristol, becoming a lecturer there in 1999. [5] [7] [12] Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. Archaeopress. 2007. ISBN 978-1-4073-0035-1. OCLC 124507736. Although Roberts does draw on genomic evidence to show the migration of peoples in prehistory, what is so fascinating about this book is the way it weaves together scientific and cultural interpretation. Detailed archaeology – trowel work – as well as historical imagination are still essential to understanding the past.

On 14 March 2022, Curse Of The Ancients with Alice Roberts, a five-part documentary series presented by Roberts premiered on Sky History. [60] This is a detailed and richly imagined account of the deep history of the British landscape, which brings alive those “who have walked here before us”, and speaks powerfully of a sense of connectedness to place that is rooted in common humanity: “we are just the latest human beings to occupy this landscape”. I like to see hillforts as Iron Age castles; but also maybe places where animals were overwintered. Some have hut circles so we know there were people living in them. You get this impression that those Iron Age people didn’t just go for the first hill – they had a look around and went: This is the one with the view.’ Alice Roberts was appointed the University of Birmingham’s first professor of public engagement in science in February 2012. Roberts has been a member of the advisory board of Cheltenham Science Festival for ten years and a member of the Advisory Board of the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath since 2018. Burials are like time capsules - each one, a physical biography, written into the skeleton. Objects placed into graves provide us with some of our clearest evidence of ancient cultures - and the science of genomics is now revolutionising our perception of the deep past. From the colonisation of the globe in the Palaeolithic to the prehistory of Britain, Alice reflects on what archaeological discoveries tell us about our ancestors and the human experience that binds us all together.

Roberts, Alice May (2008). Rotator cuff disease in humans and apes: a palaeopathological and evolutionary perspective on shoulder pathology. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Bristol. OCLC 931580371. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.492449. Archived from the original on 1 December 2018 . Retrieved 1 November 2018.

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] Amos, Jonathan (15 May 2017). "Dinosaur asteroid hit 'worst possible place' ". BBC News . Retrieved 17 May 2017.Alice Roberts is an English biological anthropologist, biologist, television presenter and author. She has been Professor of the Public Engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham since 2012. Roberts has been President of the charity Humanists the UK since 2019, which campaigns for state secularism and for “a tolerant world where rational thinking and kindness prevail”. Early life Name In March and April 2023, Roberts presented the four-part Channel 4 series Fortress Britain with Alice Roberts. [61] a b c d e f "In the hot seat: Alice Roberts". thisisbristol.co.uk. 11 July 2008. Archived from the original on 13 May 2009 . Retrieved 28 May 2009.