Through the ages, anatomy evolved as a foundation of medical education. Osteology or study of bones are very essential and integral part of anatomy teaching curriculum. Human bones are unsurpassed in the ability to provide three-dimensional instruction in osteology. The important aspect of bone anatomy can be learned most efficiently by utilizing bones to understand the sites of soft tissue insertion and the course of neurovascular bundles in the region.Maceration is time consuming and elicits strong odours. Insects are useful as a technique to clean bones but several thousand are required to produce rapid cleaning and if left with bones for a long period of time can eat and destroy them. Using solutions of organic and inorganic chemicals to remove soft tissue was found to be the most effective since it macerates bone in a fast and odourless way. It also has a less degradative effect on bone DNA than the other cleaning processes. However, prompt attention should be given to the preparation when using the chemical method so that the concentration used is not high in order to avoid dissolving and cracking the bones. The authors, having tried different methods, have been able to standardize their own method and presents the method of retrieving bones from cadavers (or animals) using a combination of various bone cleaning techniques for anatomical studies. The yield of the bones thus retrieved by this method is of very superior quality in terms of morphological details and can be used for anthropological and morphometric studies.
