HERE ARE THE INSTRUCTIONS AND THE LINKS TO THE "WRITTEN IN BONE" ASSIGNMENT:
Watch the video and navigate through the site to answer the following questions. Use the page names in parentheses and hints as starting points to help you find the answers. Answer these questions in your Reader/Writer Notebook.
1. What can forensic anthropologists learn by analyzing bones that we cannot learn from other kinds of historical sources? (Skeleton Keys)
2. Many of the 17th-century graves unearthed in the Chesapeake reveal clues into how and why someone died. If a grave or coffin was clearly too small for the individual who was buried within, what might that reveal about the circumstances under which they had died?
What differences would you expect to find between the burials and bones of two men of the same age, one the wealthy governor of Jamestown and the other an indentured servant?
3. Forensic anthropologists closely examine the DNA evidence from bones and other artifacts to learn more about how people lived in the 17th century. What are the various methods and tools forensic anthropologists use to examine and collect information from bones? (Video)
4. What does this exhibition reveal about the lives of Africans in the 17th-century Chesapeake? What are some of the ways forensic anthropologists determine the ancestry of the people whose bones they discover?
3. Forensic anthropologists closely examine the DNA evidence from bones and other artifacts to learn more about how people lived in the 17th century. What are the various methods and tools forensic anthropologists use to examine and collect information from bones? (Video)
4. What does this exhibition reveal about the lives of Africans in the 17th-century Chesapeake? What are some of the ways forensic anthropologists determine the ancestry of the people whose bones they discover?
Hint
5. Life in the 17th-century Chesapeake was extremely difficult and mortality rates were very high. What are some of the insights we can draw about the challenges they faced from examining their bones? (Unearthing the 17th Century Chesapeake: The First Colonists, The First Fatalities, Harsh Realities, and Struggling to Survive)
6. How would a forensic anthropologist determine whether a skeleton was buried 400 years ago or four years ago?
5. Life in the 17th-century Chesapeake was extremely difficult and mortality rates were very high. What are some of the insights we can draw about the challenges they faced from examining their bones? (Unearthing the 17th Century Chesapeake: The First Colonists, The First Fatalities, Harsh Realities, and Struggling to Survive)
6. How would a forensic anthropologist determine whether a skeleton was buried 400 years ago or four years ago?
Bone Biography: A “bone biography” tells the story of a person from the past by analyzing their bones and burial. It includes information about who they were, how they lived, and possibly reveals how they died.
Create a bone biography of one of the individuals explored in the exhibition (Forensic Case Files). Details to include, if possible are: Identity (Where was he/she from), Age, Gender, Cause of Death, and Occupation. If you can’t find all the details, they can make hypotheses based on the evidence found from the bones, or based on what they have learned through research or prior knowledge.
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