Skeleton keys

"Bone is as embedded in our culture as it is in our bodies. Our species has made instruments and jewelry from bone, treated the dead like collectors' items, put our faith in skull bumps as guides to human behavior, and arranged skeletons into macabre tributes to the afterlife. [The author] makes a . . . case for getting better acquainted with our skeletons, in all their . . . roles. Bridging the worlds of paleontology, anthropology, medicine, and forensics, [this book] illuminates the complex life of bones inside our bodies and out"--OCLC.