Femur bone found in excavation at the University of Utah

Stories in the Bones

How a mystery on the University of Utah campus led to surprising findings about the state’s early medical training By Ellen Fagg Weist This is a hand of a laborer: That’s visible from the bones. Two fingertips on this left hand are missing, and the palm bones are badly fused together.  Nearly 100 years after they were likely buried and …

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