Unveiling Stories Hidden in Bones
Every bone has a story. Learn the skills to tell it.
Enrol today in Introduction to Forensic Anthropology.
Crime Scenes
Forensic anthropology applies archaeological techniques to legal investigations, focusing on the systematic search, documentation, and recovery of buried, surface-scattered, and burned human remains.
Human Rights Investigations
Forensic anthropology is crucial to human rights investigations, using scientific analysis of skeletal remains to identify victims, determining causes of death, and uncovering evidence of war crimes, genocide, and state-sponsored violence.
Post-mortem Examination
Forensic anthropology examines human remains that are decomposed, mummified, burned, or skeletonized to establish a biological profile (estimation of age, sex, stature, ancestry), identify trauma and pathologies, and estimate the time since death.

