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Before we start, a heads up.

This episode includes explicit language.

This is one of these cases where the material has some flesh on it,

which is not uncommon actually in forensics and forensic anthropology.

In this case, this audio you're hearing is from a video first offered to undergraduate anthropology students at Princeton University,

then posted on the free education website, Coursera.

It's called Real Bones, Adventures in Forensic Anthropology.

Professor Janet Mange and a student are standing at a display table.

Behind them, rows and rows of skulls sitting glass cabinets.

And laid out before them, our human remains.

What Mange refers to as the material.

The bones are, I mean, we would say like juicy in a meaning that you can tell that they are of a recently deceased individual.

They have a lot of sort of sheen to them, at least this one does.

And then yeah.

As she speaks, the camera closes in on Mange.

She's got a partial femur in her hands.

If you smell it, it doesn't actually smell bad, but it smells just kind of greasy, like an older style grease.

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