Dr Chris Deter

Dr Deter received her PhD from University College London in 2005. She holds an MSc in Osteology, Palaeopathology and Funerary Archaeology from the University of Sheffield (1999), and a BSc in Archaeology from Kansas State University (1996). Dr Deter has participated in archaeological fieldwork projects in the United States, Namibia, Israel, Nicaragua, Belize and Greece.     

Dr Deter is a skeletal biologist and forensic anthropologist who specialises in dietary reconstruction from human skeletal remains.

Module convenor of:

Advanced Human Osteology and Anatomy. FOST7001

Advanced Practical Skills in Forensic Osteology. FOST 7003    

Dr Deter supervises PhD student projects in human osteology and forensic anthropology.

Current PhD students:

Petrina Barnard. Provenancing unidentified individuals from a combined dental histology and trace element approach.

Clarice Skinner. Developing a method to estimate adult age-at-death from root dentin histology.

• Manager of the Human Osteology Lab.
• Curator of the human skeletal collection.
• Director of Kent Osteological Research and Analysis (KORA), which is based in the Human Osteology Lab. This unit offers commercial osteological services to a range of public sectors and works closely with regional archaeological units, especially Canterbury Archaeological Trust, The Trust for Thanet Archaeology, and SWALE.