Forensic science can be used as a toolbox of techniques to reconcile an unidentified body with its previous living identity. Forensic anthropologists look to features of our corporeal biology or chemistry to analyse a trackable and readable history of the life lived, and to confirm whether the evidence recovered matches traces left by that person in the past. In other words, we search for clues of the narrative written in our bodies, innate and acquired, laid down between birth and death.
