"Bones"--the remains of ancient New World natives now lying in museums and university laboratories across the Americas--are at the center of the scientific and cultural battles described in this provocative book. Dewar explores the politics of archaeology, history, law, native spirituality, and race relations at work in this scientific battlefield.

Elaine Dewar is an award-winning investigative journalist whose beats include culture, international politics, science, business, and the environment. Reviewing Bones, historian Peter C. Newman has called Dewar "the Rachel Carson of Canada," whose work "is aimed always at expanding mental horizons . . . This is a must read." Dewar lives in Toronto.