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Maybe if they’d been excavated 150 years ago, archaeologists would have been saying: This is definitely a man; must have been a chieftain.’

In June 2023, Roberts presented the four-part Channel 4 series Ancient Egypt by Train with Alice Roberts. [62] Awards and honours [ edit ] Alice Roberts was one of the regular co-presenters of BBC geographical and environmental series Coast and also a presenter of science and history television documentaries. Roberts first appeared on television in the Time Team Live 2001 episode, working on Anglo-Saxon burials at Breamore, Hampshire. She served as a bone specialist and general presenter in many episodes, including the spin-off series Extreme Archaeology. In August 2006, a Time Team special episode Big Royal Dig investigated the archaeology of Britain’s royal palaces and Roberts was one of the main presenters.Alice first trained as a doctor before specialising in the crossover between human anatomy and archaeology and history. And she's published numerous books as well as presenting popular TV and radio shows about science. She's also a Professor of Public Engagement with Science at the University of Birmingham. And she has been vocal about her atheism. She's currently the president of Humanists UK. So her research combines biology and anatomy with archaeology and anthropology to shed new light on ancient history. Roberts, Alice (16 September 2016). "Sorry David Attenborough, we didn't evolve from 'aquatic apes' – here's why". The Conversation . Retrieved 16 October 2016.

Writing in the i newspaper in 2016, Roberts dismissed the aquatic ape hypothesis (AAH) as a distraction "from the emerging story of human evolution that is more interesting and complex", adding that AAH has become "a theory of everything" that is simultaneously "too extravagant and too simple". She concluded by saying that "science is about evidence, not wishful thinking". [25] [26] a b Roberts, Alice; McLysaght, Aoife (2018). "Who am I?". The Royal Institution. Archived from the original on 10 January 2021 . Retrieved 19 February 2021. Alice Roberts wins Humanist of the Year at BHA Annual Conference 2015". British Humanist Association. 20 June 2015 . Retrieved 19 January 2019. She presented the series Origins of Us, which aired on BBC Two in October 2011, examining how the human body has adapted through seven million years of evolution. [43] The last part of this series featured Roberts visiting the Rift Valley in East Africa.So some of the long bones – a say things like thigh bones – are smashed when they're clearly green, when the bone is fresh. And, and fractures look very different when bone is fresh, and when bone has been in the ground for a long time, and then perhaps disturbed and gets broken. And there's also human tooth marks on the bones. So you know, that kind of adds up to being fairly kind of suspicious. And then also, there are skulls, which have been carved into cups. So the base of the skull has been taken away, you're just left with the dome of the skull, and you kind of turn it upside down. And some of these are chipped very carefully around the edges to even it out, to create a kind of cup. In January 2021 Roberts presented a 10-part narrative history series about the human body entitled Bodies on BBC Radio 4. [29] Television career [ edit ]

In February 2012 Roberts was appointed the University of Birmingham's first Professor of Public Engagement in Science. [21] [22] [23] And then the following year, I said just “no I can't do this, I'm not, I'm not believing this.” So maybe it was the process of going through confirmation. But I think you do, you do examine your faith. And unfortunately, it took a little bit longer for the penny to drop for me. But it did, it was a process of questioning. And I think I was doing a lot of science at school as well. And so that kind of questioning and critical thinking extended to my personal beliefs and my thoughts about the world itself. And I realised that even if I were to take most of the Bible (so I was brought up as an Anglican in the Church of England), even if I was to take most of the Bible with a pinch of salt, there are kind of some fundamental things that you do have to believe in, one of these being the existence of God. If you don't believe in the existence of God, you're out of the club, really. So I suppose I became an atheist age 15. 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]

Yeah, there's something I noticed in your book a lot, actually, is just the importance of narrative. And yeah, the way that that brings the science to life for a non-scientist. But as you say, also does seem quite integral to it. Whereas actually, I think what we're saying here is, it's far from anonymous, at least in those tombs, where we've got this evidence of relatives buried in the same place. And perhaps what we are seeing is, is kind of family plots, you know, which we're obviously familiar with, later on, and up until quite recently. And it may be that these are essentially family tombs for the elite. Because we are entering a period of time where we're seeing a more kind of hierarchical structure of society. And they're making their mark in the landscape. It’s a fascinating time, because this Neolithic period is the first time we get people really stamping their identity on the landscape. And, you know, creating big monumental architecture in the landscape, from stones circles, to these amazing chamber tombs. Perhaps one of the problems – certainly when it comes to British prehistory - is the paucity of written accounts before the arrival of highly literate Romans on our isle. In March 2011, she presented a BBC documentary in the Horizon series entitled Are We Still Evolving? She presented the series Origins of Us, which aired on BBC Two in October 2011, examining how the human body has adapted through seven million years of evolution. The last part of this series featured Roberts visiting the Rift Valley in East Africa. a b "Professor Alice Roberts – Professor of Public Engagement in Science". University of Birmingham . Retrieved 19 January 2019.

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. In the first episode, Dr Alice Roberts looks at how our skeleton reveals our incredible evolutionary journey.

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. So we're not just getting the biology of the individual on their own from their bones, we're actually seeing a lot more about that individual and who they were in their community, and what their culture was about. And then burial itself, I think, is interesting, because we don't really see any other animals doing it. We know that other animals mourn. We know that chimpanzees mourn. Chimpanzee mothers who will carry the dead infant with them for days. Elephants will return to the corpse of a friend or relative, again and again. So there's definitely evidence of something that looks like mourning and an understanding of the loss of an individual. I don't think other animals, even chimpanzees, understand that they're going to die. So I think that's something that does mark us that is different, that we know that at some point, we're going to die. I think all of religion is about that, it’s about the kind of the terror of knowing that we're mortal. And trying to deal with that. And obviously, humanists have a different way of dealing with that. We, modern genetic progeny, deserve the proper telling from whence came! Cannibals are in the ancestral family tree. It's a high probability from evidence. It looks like it was a 1000-year tradition. Was eating G-ma a way to preserve her among the living, as seen in modern Pacific cannibalism? Is it an 'eat the enemies'? We'll never know, but, the practice reality, the H.sap capacity is in our genes. Is it moral to eat mom, to absorb the abundance of protein that was a loved one? It's repulsive on first thought. But, where is it in the spectrum of human morality? In October 2014, she presented Spider House. [48] In 2015, she co-presented a 3-part BBC TV documentary with Neil Oliver entitled The Celts: Blood, Iron and Sacrifice [49] and wrote a book to tie in with the series: The Celts: Search for a Civilisation. [50] In April–May 2016, she co-presented the BBC Two programme Food Detectives which looked at food nutrition and its effects on the body. In August 2016, she presented the BBC Four documentary Britain's Pompeii: A Village Lost in Time, which explored the Must Farm Bronze Age settlement in Cambridgeshire. [51] In May 2017, she was a presenter of the BBC Two documentary The Day The Dinosaurs Died. [52] In April 2018, she presented the six-part Channel 4 series Britain's Most Historic Towns, [53] which examines the history of British towns, which was followed by a second series in May 2019 and a third series in November 2020.

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