Sue is director of the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification at the University of Dundee. At the heart of her job in the field is the recovery and identification of skeletal remains. Are they human? What sex, what age, what height, what ethnicity? When did death occur? Why? If a corpse is intact and not too decomposed, a pathologist may be able to answer these questions. If not, a forensic anthropologist is needed to analyse not just the bones but all the ‘human remains’ left behind: hair, clothing, jewelry, any of the many items we collect and carry with us every day.
