Buried Bones Come Alive at UMass

Gabrielle Orr, 21, of Boston University screens dirt samples at the field site of the UMass Amherst Anthropology Department’s Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Field School on Friday. Over the course of six weeks, students learn how to excavate human skeletal remains, made of plastic, using archaeological techniques at the taphonomy lab on the UMass Campus. (see more)