Grave Matters Group

Experts in Human Skeletal Remains

Welcome to
Grave matters Group

Bone identification
Cultural Resource Management
Remains Recovery
Training Courses
about our company

Leading the way in Remains Analysis

Grave Matters Group is a scientific consultancy firm designed to provide unparalleled expertise, analytical skills, and experience-based insights in the recovery, identification, and analysis of human skeletal remains.

Our team is comprised of expert physical anthropologists and archaeologists with extensive backgrounds in various cultural, historical, and medicolegal settings, both in the United States and in the United Kingdom.

To date, Grave Matters Group has provided skeletal remains-related services to the US Forest Service, national K9 search and rescue teams and forensic training organizations, and multiple coroner’s offices and local & state-level law enforcement agencies across ten states.

In the News

See Us in
People Magazine

Grave Matters Group’s President, Dr. Cheryl Johnston, can be found in the June 28 2021 issue’s article A New End of Life Choice: Human Composting: a Greener Grave, featuring our friend Katrina Spade.

why choose uS?

40 years experience In Forensic Anthropology

With a combined 40 years of experience, the owners of Grave Matters Group are active practitioners and docents of their craft. With credentials in the United States and the United Kingdom, Grave Matters Group offers a robust mix of qualifications and skills unlike any other on the market.

Experience
innovation
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What do we do?

We Offer a Wide Variety of Services

Bone Identification

human vs non-human, bioarchaeology, forensic analysis

Remains Recovery

surface scatters, clandestine graves, arson scenes

training Courses

bone id., decomposition, forensic methods

Cultural Resource Management

collections analysis, "red flag" assessments, geophysics

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Drop us a line and we can begin planning for your project needs.

our Executive Team

Grave Matters Group is a network of talented, expert forensic anthropologists and archeologists, here to help with your project load.

President
Dr. Cheryl Johnston, D-ABFA
Forensic Anthropologist
Vice-President
Jeremy Pless
Forensic Specialist
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