FAIRFAX, Va., Oct. 26 -- George Mason University issued the following news release:
Every October, skeletons come out of the closet for Halloween. They dangle from porches, lounge on front lawns, and rattle their way through "haunted" houses. While the rest of us are getting creeped out or amused, George Mason University anthropologist Kimberly Foecke sees something entirely different. For her, skeletons are storytellers.
"Bones are the closest we can get to time travel," said Foecke, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology who teaches biological anthropology.
A lifelong skeleton enthusiast, Foecke has a bone to pick with the idea that skeletons are inherently creepy. "Bones are incredibly important," she s...