Describes the techniques that forensic anthropologists use to identify bodies after death.

Join author Sally M. Walker as she works alongside scientists investigating colonial-era graves near Jamestown, Virginia: a teenage boy, a ship's captain, an indentured servant, a colonial official and his family, and an enslaved African girl. All are reaching beyond the grave to tell us their stories, which are written in bone.

Explores the world of forensic anthropology and its applications in solving crimes.