Yale student Sarah Brownlee and biological anthropologist Gary Aronsen, examine the skeletons at the Yale Biological Anthropology Laboratories. (Photo credit: Stephanie Anestis Photography)
On July 12, 2011, a human bone was discovered jutting from a drainage trench at a construction site at Yale New Haven Hospital. The New Haven police and state coroner were called, but it was no crime scene. Michael Massella, a security officer on duty at the hospital, contacted his co-worker Anthony Griego, a retired New Haven police officer and local historian. Griego knew that the construction site - the hospital was expanding its emergency department - lay above a forgotten Roman Catholic cemetery. On his advice, then-State Archaeologist Nicholas Bellantoni was called to the scene. Bellantoni, in turn, called Gary Aronsen, a biological anthropologist at Yale University. The construction site temporarily became an archaeological dig.
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