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Search - No Bone Unturned: Inside the World of a Top Forensic Scientist and His Work on America's Most Notorious Crimes and Disasters
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No Bone Unturned Inside the World of a Top Forensic Scientist and His Work on America's Most Notorious Crimes and Disasters Author: A curator for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Doug Owsley painstakingly rebuilds skeletons, helping to identify them and determine their cause of death. He has worked on several notorious cases -- from mass graves uncovered in Croatia to the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon -- and has examined historic skeletons tens of thousands of ... more »
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Sandra D. (Zea) reviewed No Bone Unturned: Inside the World of a Top Forensic Scientist and His Work on America's Most Notorious Crimes and Disasters on + 7 more book reviews
The subtitle is a bit misleading - it is partially a biography of Doug Owsley, an archaeologist and physical anthropologist at the Smithsonian, with chapters on a few of his cases (reconstructing human remains from Waco and in Guatemala), and partially an account of the court battle over Kennewick Man, a 9,600 year old skeleton found eroding out of the Columbia River in Washington state.
Genres:
- History >> Americas >> United States >> State & Local
- History >> Americas >> Native American >> General & Post-Columbus
- Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Anthropology >> Physical
- Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Anthropology >> General
- Nonfiction >> Politics >> General
- Science & Math >> General