In the aftermath of the dirty wars in Argentina, from 1976 to 1983, a group of anthropologists came together to create an organisation called Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (or Equipo Argentino de Antroplogia Forense, EAAF). Their mission was to account for the victims of the painful period in the country and find the remains of those who had perished during that period. EAAF was organised by local forensic anthropologists and subsequently assisted by researchers from several countries, who found the mission admirable and necessary. The idea of EAAF was simple - to find information and remains of those who had disappeared and bring closure to the families of those who had died during the period of the dirty wars. Since the 1980s, organisations across the world, from Bosnia to El Salvador, Timor-Leste to South Africa, have used the methods developed by EAAF to bring dignity and closure. These approaches have also become essential to........

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