Dr. Kate Spradley attended the opening reception of a new exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, ‘Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th Century Chesapeake’. Dr. Spradley co-authored one of the exhibit sections concerning the geographic origins of Africans. She was also featured in a short film within the exhibit focusing on her analysis of several individuals from the early American colony of Harleigh Knoll located in Maryland. Because of Dr. Spradley’s dissertation work on African biological variation using craniometric data, she was asked to be an exhibit contributor.