Tracking a history of murder and mayhem that began in 40,000 B.C., Bones shows how forensics gives voice to the dead--how to deduce the weapon from the wound, how a skeleton disarticulates, and other hair-raising phenomena. Dr. Douglas Ubelaker, Smithsonian curator of anthropology and FBI consultant, offers a fascinating examination of forensic medicine at work. Photographs.
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Tracking a history of murder and mayhem that began in 40,000 B.C., Bones shows how forensics gives voice to the dead--how to deduce the weapon from the wound, how a skeleton disarticulates, and other hair-raising phenomena. Dr. Douglas Ubelaker, Smithsonian curator of anthropology and FBI consultant, offers a fascinating examination of forensic medicine at work. Photographs.
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