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Anthropologist Spent Hundreds of Hours Identifying Hunley Remains. Dan Huntley.

by Huntley, Dan; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 70Family. Publisher: Charlotte Observer, 2004ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Dead -- Identification | Facial reconstruction (Anthropology) | Forensic anthropology | Hunley (Submarine) | Submarines (Ships) | U.S. -- History -- Civil War (1861-1865) -- CasualtiesDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Bones talk. And Doug Owsley listens. As chief forensic anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution, he has devoted part of the last four years to identifying and putting a face on each of the eight sailors who died aboard the Confederate Hunley, the first submarine to sink an enemy warship. The Hunley sank in 1864 with a full crew and was recovered in August 2000 off Sullivans Island, S.C." (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER) This article details how "Owsley helped assemble a team of historians, genealogists and other forensic scientists to research the crew's past and to create facial reconstructions."
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Originally Published: Anthropologist Spent Hundreds of Hours Identifying Hunley Remains, April 16, 2004; pp. n.p..

"Bones talk. And Doug Owsley listens. As chief forensic anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution, he has devoted part of the last four years to identifying and putting a face on each of the eight sailors who died aboard the Confederate Hunley, the first submarine to sink an enemy warship. The Hunley sank in 1864 with a full crew and was recovered in August 2000 off Sullivans Island, S.C." (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER) This article details how "Owsley helped assemble a team of historians, genealogists and other forensic scientists to research the crew's past and to create facial reconstructions."

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