“The Bones Don’t Lie”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23637294 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victoria Sanford (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Pages | 30-48 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Buried Secrets (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9781403973375_3 |
| OpenAlex | W2500110450 |
| ISBN | 9781403973375 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
In June 1994 I began my fieldwork, which focused on the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation (Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala—FAFG) exhumation of a clandestine cemetery in Plan de Sánchez. After a six-hour bus ride, Kathleen Dill and I reached Rabinal— a small rural town of about 6,000 inhabitants with some 18,000 more liv-ing in surrounding villages. 1 It was in the late afternoon on a Thursday, and we noticed that all the doors and windows of all the houses were shut. We reached Rabinal just as the forensic team was departing for Guatemala City for the weekend to take care of some paperwork. We had missed the FAFG’s first week of work at the site. They offered us a ride to the city in the back of the truck, but by then, it was nearly four o’clock and we had been in transit (on buses) since six in the morning. We decided to stay for the weekend. There was no public transportation to Plan de Sánchez and it wasn’t safe for us to walk to the village alone, so we waited until Monday, when the FAFG returned in the early morning, to go up the mountain. Though just eight kilometers above Rabinal, it took some forty minutes for a four-wheel drive vehicle to climb the mountains to reach the small village. It lies so high in the mountains that we left the fog of the morning behind in the valley of Rabinal. We reached the clear morning sky at the top of the mountain, and looking down, we saw a blanket of clouds resting in the valley. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Archaeology · Cartography · Doors · Geography · Morning · Thursday · Cuban History and Society · Engineering · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Medicine · Politics and Society in Latin America
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |