The skeleton allows movement, provides support and protection for vital organs and makes blood cells. Skeletal muscles move the bones in the body. The skeletal system is made from bones and joints.

“If the skeleton is over the age of 20, we use other techniques,” Wheatley says. The epiphysis on the sternal end of the clavicle, for example, fuses around the age of 30. The sternal ends of the ...

Skeletal remains and skull fragments of two Bronze Age women were found at a construction site in the U.K. Their remains were found in Kent at a building site slated for 41 homes along with animal ...