BONE KEEPERS.

Besides the abundant supply, India's skeletons were popular among Western scientists for another reason: In warehouselike facilities, line workers vigorously scrubbed and doused these bones with toxic chemicals, which endangered their own lives but produced immaculate skeletons. UNIVERSITIES HOLD TROVES OF HUMAN BONES. Programs like UMass and The Body Farm are one solution to a major problem: Universities need human bones for education and research, but ethically sourced skeletons are rare. Unlike some at her university and elsewhere, Agarwal has aided repatriation efforts and does not teach with Indigenous remains or skeletons from India's bone trade. [Extracted from the article]