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In Written in Bone, Sally M. Walker, develops many central ideas over the course of the text. One central idea is forensic anthropologists explore bones to tell the stories of the past . Another central idea is forensic anthropology is the study of human skeletal remains to understand the life and death of people in the past. The author develops these central ideas using explanations telling us how they are made using captions and photographs of Doug Owsley and more people studying bones and graves. Another way the author develops the central idea forensic anthropologists explore bones to tell stories of the past through explanations telling us how they are made.

One of the central ideas of Written Bone, by Sally M. Walker, is forensic anthropologists

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