ABSTRACT
In the heat of bipolarity, a conflictive and spasmodic political history concentrated the exercise of State terrorism in different countries. Forensic anthropology teams work and intervene on the past that overshadows the present, and they do so with a comprehensive, humanistic, and committed social perspective that is at the same time scientific, methodological, and instrumental. A quick review of the evolution and extent of forensic anthropology teams begins by locating the creation of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team. The past-present is undoubtedly a battleground. Many aspects of power are fought for, including the right to the truth and, one must insist, the historical account. Scientific procedures and other tools have permitted, in the majority of cases, the gathering of conclusive data concerning what in some cases were hypotheses, memories of the resistance and, in some others, official versions that began to crumble.
