Jose Antonio Aguilar, a Forensic Anthropology Foundation assistant, cleans exhumed bones removed from a mass grave in one of Guatemala City's largest cemeteries, La Verbena, Thursday Jan. 13, 2011. A group of forensic anthropologists expect to create a database that will eventually help match genetic samples of relatives of the more than 40,000 persons disappeared during the civil war.
A forensic anthropologist places a marker on part of a mass grave in one of Guatemala City's largest cemeteries, La Verbena, Thursday Jan. 13, 2011. A group of forensic anthropologists expect to create a database that will eventually help match genetic samples of relatives of the more than 40,000 persons disappeared during the civil war
Forensic anthropologists exhume part of a mass grave in one of Guatemala City's largest cemeteries, La Verbena, Thursday Jan. 13, 2011. The anthropologists expect to create a database that will eventually help match genetic samples of relatives of the more than 40,000 persons disappeared during the civil war.
A forensic anthropologist takes notes on human remains exhumed from a a mass grave in one of Guatemala City's largest cemeteries, La Verbena, Thursday Jan. 13, 2011. A group of forensic anthropologists expect to create a database that will eventually help match genetic samples of relatives of the more than 40,000 persons disappeared during the civil war.
Forensic anthropologist Mynor Silvestre stands inside a mass grave in one of Guatemala City's largest cemeteries, La Verbena, Thursday Jan. 13, 2011. A group of forensic anthropologists expect to create a database that will eventually help match genetic samples of relatives of the more than 40,000 persons disappeared during the civil war.
Forensic anthropologist Alma Vasquez analyzes exhumed bones removed from a mass grave in one of Guatemala City's largest cemeteries, La Verbena, Thursday Jan. 13, 2011. A group of forensic anthropologists expect to create a database that will eventually help match genetic samples of relatives of the more than 40,000 persons disappeared during the civil war.
Forensic anthropologist Mynor Silvestre scales the wall of a mass grave after a day of exhumations in one of Guatemala City's largest cemeteries, La Verbena, Thursday Jan. 13, 2011. The anthropologists expect to create a database that will eventually help match genetic samples of relatives of the more than 40,000 persons disappeared during the civil war.
