Forensic anthropologists at the Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C. use modern tools such as CT scans, a mass spectrometer, a scanning electron microscope, and DNA analysis to help determine the life and death of a person lost to history.

Reading the Remains

Go along as Smithsonian forensic anthropologists unearth an unusual discovery from colonial Maryland.

Finding Remains

Before you can read the remains, unearth the evidence, or make discoveries about the 17th-century Chesapeake, you'll need to learn about how bones in the human body change over a person's lifetime.

Skeletal Growth

Watch real excavations performed by forensic anthropologists and see what they discover.

Burial Excavations

Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th Century Chesapeake

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