Amherst - It’s another rainy day in a series of rainy days, yet the students are used to the mud and are focused on the bones that lie before them, not the weather.
These are not real bones but tools to help them learn what to do when they are in the field with the real thing.
The students have come from all across the country to learn about excavation and laboratory analysis of skeletal remains at the Taphonomy Research Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts. And mud or no mud, they are deep into it. ...