Imagine you are an archaeologist excavating at a new building site in East London, the location of an ancient cemetery. Deep down you uncover bones that look old. You recover a full skull with teeth, ...

Within the skeleton there are different kinds of bone. The type of bone determines ... Their main function is to act as a lever. Short Carpals Small and compact, often equal in length and width.

The older the person at death, the more pitted and craggy these bones will be. Forensic anthropologists will compare this against a database of standard markers to learn the age of the skeleton.

This short film is from the BBC series, Biological processes of the human body. You could get a skeleton model and connect rubber bands to the bones in order to demonstrate how one muscle ...