Forensic Anthropology Figurative Language

Skeletons speak louder than words. This doesn’t really mean that skeletons are speaking loudly. It means that they can give you heaps of information just by studying the skeleton. Another example of figurative language of forensic anthropology is “Giving faces to the lost.” We aren’t literally gonna go make a face and give it to someone who is lost(dead), that would be absurd! This simply means that we are going to try and figure out who the skeleton was before he/she died. My personal favorite example of forensic anthropology figurative language is “Dead man talking.” Now I hope you know that dead people cannot actually talk. The saying just refers to the fact that even after a person has passed on, they can still give people a great deal