Forensic anthropologists have the ability to identify these types of bones! Don't be discouraged if you didn't even know these bones were humanoid! It's completely normal. To my dismay, these were small-brained (unintelligent!) males who usually grunted their way throughout life.
Anthropology was introduced to the United States by Franz Boaz, who headed the first program at Columbia University. Physical anthropogy, in which forensic anthropology is highly connected with, used the skulls of historical human life to shell out differences among cultures. One of the most controversial application of anthropology was used by Adolf Hitler who read Boaz' works and determined that a master race would be established.
The three goals of anthropology is to reconstruct cultural history by means of knowing the who, what when, where? As well as reconstructing the past life ways of the hearth/origin of the individual and be able to explain the cultural process (long and short-term change of the scientific growth of the body).
The most important thing to learn about the skeletal remains is the context! The site in which they were found in can lead to the historical attribute of the existence of an entire civilization as well as the details behind the artifacts/evidence and the eco-facts that can lead to the collection of important items that can show evidence of religious insensitive, date-comparable organic material, as well as the soil in which they were found.
The important things you are looking for when searching a crime scene or any time of site is the artifacts (lithics, sherds, bone, metal, glass, etc). You are also looking for soil stains, mostly midden, to determine if water was available to this particular area, even depressions, pits, and similar soil-like features. Most importantly, natural shelters like caves and rock shelters and huge, pyramid-like hills that can easily distinguish a possible forensic case between a religious death. You should always record your findings!
Innovative technology such as remote sensing has the ability to take infrared aerial photographs that can seek skeletal remains between many feet of profound soil. The heat density infrared light might be the best option to seek out detail the naked eye has no access to! The purpose of this type of technology is to get away from the "there might be some bones under here" view point in order to prevent unnecessary environmental damage. If digging is required there's specifications that need to be made: based on the horizontal excavation what time period may have these bones be buried? Perhaps a single-time period to expose wide views of a single component of the past, or perhaps a vertical excavation to expose cave and ditch-like capacities of a multiple time-period resolution.
The items/evidence that was found with the corresponding body may suggest possible weapons and tools that were used, clothing that was worn, or even food that was consumed! In most cases further critical thinking and analysis have to continue in order to further explain the reasoning behind all the evidence that can lead to the suggestion of a murder, accident, or a natural death. One very important note to consider is that when viewing a criminal investigation is to see if there is any cut marks, don't always assume it's a knife- perhaps an animal did it when it was consuming the decomposing body! However, animals' teeth cannot break into the bone marrow since it's too tough to break from material like teeth!
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