This is the third of an eight-part series, airing every Friday. Charlie was a participant in a bioarchaeology training program earlier this summer. This was funded by a US National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduate (NSF-REU) grant.

On the show today is Charlie Downey (Albion College), who took part in his first intensive bioarchaeology research earlier this summer. We talk about different sex estimation methods osteologists use in forensic and archaeological investigations, including those using the pelvis, the skull and the humerus.

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If you want to read more about the NSF-REU program, you can do so at the official blog and website. Other participants in the program include Quentin Burke and Silvio Ernesto Mirabal Torres and five others whose episodes will air in the future.

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