Project Information


The Virtual Skeletons Project is funded by the Division of Undergraduate Education of the National Science Foundation as part of the interagency Digital Libraries initiative sponsored by the federal government. The purpose of this site is to enable you to use what you have learned from the eSkeletons.org site in an interactive set of teaching modules that allows a user to learn the evaluation techniques forensic anthropologist use to gain important information from a skeleton.

This site provides an interactive environment in which to examine and learn about skeletal anatomy in relation to forensic anthropology.. Questions in assessing ancestry, pathology, and taphonomic processess are also addressed.. This includes:

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Thank you for visiting the eForensics.info Digital Library Project.

 

eForensics Alumni:

Project Personnel: Nick Caffarelli, Eva Garrett, Ashley Gosselin-Ildari, Matthew Kilberger, Rachel Menegaz, Christyna Solhan,

Brigette Wetz, and Carrie Wilhelm.