Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th-Century Chesapeake

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Forensic anthropologists working around the Chesapeake Bay have been studying the bones of some of the region’s earliest settlers. The results are the focus of “Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th-Century Chesapeake,” opening February 7 for a two-year run.