The company was established in April 2005 to carry out osteological analyses of human skeletal remains. FOS was founded and is run by Stian Hamre. Below you can read about the company and the staff.

What to expect

By letting FOS carry out the skeletal analysis of your material, you can expect:

- a thorough analysis of your skeletal material corresponding to the questions you ask.

- the results to be presented to you in the form of a bound written osteological report (unless requested otherwise, the reports will be written in English).

- to get the finished written report within a reasonable amount of time.

- to get the work done at very competitive rates.

The laboratory

The laboratory in which the work will be carried out has all the facilities and equipment needed to conduct proper osteological analyses.

-Osteological equipment supplied by Paleo-Tech Concepts.

-Good storage space.

-Other analyses, like radiography, will be done externally.

Staff

Stian Hamre, BA, MSc. CV

Personal history

Born on December 8th, 1973, I grew up in Bergen, Norway. After graduating from Bergen Katedralskole in 1993, I was certain I wanted an academic career and enrolled at Bergen University to do the required preliminary courses. While doing those courses, I got the opportunity to take part in an archaeological excavations as a field assistant and, thus my academic direction was set. In 1995, I spent a year in the navy doing my national service before I went back to university, in 1996, to study Nordic Archaeology. During that year of archaeology studies, I developed a strong interest in the human evolution and the humans themselves, not just the artefacts they left behind. I wanted to study skeletons. Human evolution or any form of human osteology are not subjects taught at any Norwegian university, so I had to go abroad to pursue my main academic interest. I spent 1997 looking for universities that offered what I wanted, applying to universities and organising funding. At the beginning of 1998, I left for Armidale, Australia, to join the BA program in Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology at the University of New England. I graduated from there in 2001. Later the same year I started studying for my MSc at Bournemouth University, England. In 2003, I graduated with a masters degree in Forensic and Biological anthropology.

Publications

Hamre, S. 2007. Report for the osteological examination of K/H 001. FOS report 02/2007. FOS, Bergen.

Hamre, S. 2007. Amendment to the FOS report 01/2006, including the later discovered human skeletal remains from Nonneseter, Bergen. FOS report 01/2007. FOS, Bergen.

Hamre, S. 2006. Final report for the preliminary osteological analysis of the human skeletal remains from Nonneseter, Bergen. FOS report 01/2006. FOS, Bergen.

Hamre, S. 2005. En innføring i rettsantropologi. Bevis. 4:29-31

Hamre, S. 2005. Bilateral symmetry as a means of reassembling commingled human remains: a study of the long bones of the upper and lower limbs. Scandinavian Journal of Forensic Science. 11(2):60-68 (The Ecel file accompanying the method described in this article can be found here)