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    Gabrielle Orr, 21, of Boston University screens dirt samples at the field site of the UMass Amherst Anthropology Department’s Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Field School on Friday. Over the course of six weeks, students learn how to excavate human skeletal remains, made of plastic, using archaeological techniques at the taphonomy lab on the UMass Campus.
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    Emma A. Battista, 19, of Temple University, from left, Sierra Perkins, 24, of Durham University and Gabrielle Orr, 21, of Boston University work on excavating a dig site at the UMass Amherst Anthropology Department’s Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Field School on Friday. Over the course of six weeks, students learn how to excavate human skeletal remains, made of plastic, using archaeological techniques at the taphonomy lab on the UMass Campus.
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    Kayla Haigh, 22, of University of California, Berkeley, works on excavating a dig site at the UMass Amherst Anthropology Department’s Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Field School on Friday. Over the course of six weeks, students learn how to excavate human skeletal remains, made of plastic, using archaeological techniques at the taphonomy lab on the UMass Campus.
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    Hayden Bewley, 19, of Washington State University excavates human remains made of plastic with a team of fellow students at the field site of the UMass Amherst Anthropology Department’s Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Field School on Friday. Over the course of six weeks, students learn how to excavate human skeletal remains using archaeological techniques at the taphonomy lab on the UMass Campus.
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    Kallie Schildge, 22, of Skidmore College screens through dirt samples at the field site of the UMass Amherst Anthropology Department’s Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Field School on Friday. Over the course of six weeks, students learn how to excavate human skeletal remains, made of plastic, using archaeological techniques at the taphonomy lab on the UMass Campus.