You recover a full skull with teeth, and most of the bones of the body ... Adult teeth are worn down by chewing, and sometimes the amount a skeleton’s teeth are worn down can be used to estimate age.

Look for the sagittal suture – the squiggly line that runs the length of the skull – and note whether ... another clue as to the identity of your skeleton. Consult a scientist who specializes ...

Works like Vincent van Gogh’s Head of a Skeleton ... skull could also be a reference to the “dance of death,” the idea of death’s inevitability that was a frequent subject of European art ...

An interdisciplinary team from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, equipped with state-of-the-art technology ... of the skull of the inner ear. Geneticists then confirmed that the skeleton in ...