Bone Detective: The Story of Forensic Anthropologist Diane France (Women's Adventures in Science)

by Lorraine Jean Hopping

Women's Adventures in Science

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Presents a look at the life and career of forensic anthropologist Diane France, providing information on her childhood, her education, and her work studying bones from human remains that reveal information about the past.

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Diane France loves bones. Why? Because they talk to her. Every skeleton she meets whispers secrets about the life?and death?of its owner. Diane can hear those secrets because she?s a forensic anthropologist, a bone detective. She has the science skills and know-how to examine bones for clues to a mystery: Who was this person and how did he or she die? Bones tell Diane about the life and times of famous people in history, from a Russian royal family to American outlaws and war heroes. They speak to her about murders, mass disasters, and fatal accidents. One day she?s collecting skeletal evidence at a crime scene. A phone call later she?s jetting to the site of a plane crash or other unexpected tragedy to identify victims.

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Nonfiction, Anthropology
DDC/MDS
363.25Society, government, & cultureSocial problems and social servicesPublic Safety - Police, Crime InvestigationPolice servicesCriminal investigation & forensics
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GN50.6 .F8 .H66Geography, Anthropology and RecreationAnthropologyAnthropologyPhysical anthropology. Somatology
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