Use this article as your starting point for research on King Richard III: Park, A. (2013). King in a car park. The ignominious fate of Richard III. Time, 181(6), 16-17.
- How can you tell the age of a skeleton?
- What clues do the teeth provide?
- How can a male be differentiated from a female?
- Can bones tell you if someone was murdered? How?
- Is there evidence of diseases the person might have suffered from while alive in the bones?
- What can DNA obtained from bones tell us? How is ancestry determined?
- Where and when were King Richard III's bones discovered? When was he thought to have died?
- How do King Richard's bones support or contradict the details of his life and death?
- Do you have any other examples of a skeletal identification that contributed to our historical knowledge?