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Evolutionary biologist Ben Garrod presents anthropological detective stories.

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Ben Garrod reveals how the archers who sank with the Mary Rose could help medical science.

Evolutionary biologist Ben Garrod explores some mysterious bones: a skeleton on the Mary Rose which sank in 1545. From 2017.

Evolutionary biologist Ben Garrod tries his hand at pulling a medieval long bow and discovers how studies of the skeletons of the archers who sank with the Mary Rose could help patients with dyspraxia. 

Producer Sarah Blunt.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2017.

Bone Stories: Series 1

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