Author Archives: JB

Osteology Everywhere: Cerveza Edition

Posted on July 28, 2014 by JB

On Friday night I took a much needed break from dissertation work. Instead of staring at my Excel spreadsheets with a furrowed brow, I went out for beer and tapas to celebrate my roommate finishing the two-day long ordeal that is … Continue reading →

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Skopje

Posted on July 17, 2014 by JB

[Explanatory Note: I’m going to be doing a lot of travelling in the next six months, and  I’ll occasionally post a travel essay that has nothing to do with osteology or bioarchaeology. These will be tagged under a new “Travel … Continue reading →

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A Travel Agency for Osteologists…

Posted on July 7, 2014 by JB

This past week I was in Skopje for a friend’s wedding. While exploring the city center (by which I mean searching out and sampling as much banichka as I could get my hands on during my limited time in the … Continue reading →

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Gotta hand it to you: identifying manual and pedal phalanges

Posted on June 4, 2014 by JB

At the AAPAs, the Bone Clones table was handing out free phalanx keychains, and when I received mine I had to double-check whether it was manual or pedal. This led me to review White and Folkens’ section on the phalanges, … Continue reading →

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The Bear Paw Saga: Volume I

Posted on May 22, 2014 by JB

My friend Alice’s parents live in a beautiful but isolated house in the middle of the western North Carolina hills. Their dogs, Ruby and Tucker, are free roaming, and often drag home portions of animal carcasses that they encounter during their … Continue reading →

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Osteology Everywhere: Edición ‘Bienvenido a España’

Posted on May 17, 2014 by JB

This sculpture sits at the entrance of Madrid’s Chamartín train station. While dragging fifty-plus pounds of luggage up a nearby escalator, I was struck by its resemblance to one specific bone from the human body. Name both the element and the … Continue reading →

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Anatomy Quiz 1

Posted on May 12, 2014 by JB

It’s time to kick off the summer with a new type of quiz! I haven’t dissected in awhile, but I recently got the opportunity to whip out a scalpel and scissors again. I forgot how satisfying it is to gently tear through … Continue reading →

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AAPAs 2014 – Calgary

Posted on April 9, 2014 by JB

It snowed this morning. And no, it’s not because I’m still in the land of never-ending, Game of Thrones-style winter (also known as Michigan), but because I’m in Calgary. I’m here in Alberta for the annual American Association of Physical … Continue reading →

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Blogging Archaeology: March

Posted on March 20, 2014 by JB

So far this year I have applied for thirteen different fellowships or grants.  It’s pretty much par for the course in today’s academia to apply for as much as you possibly can and hope you get lucky somewhere, but it’s … Continue reading →

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Porotic Hyperostosis and Cribra Orbitalia

Posted on March 14, 2014 by JB

I recently found a short synopsis I’d written a few years back about the etiology of cribra orbitalia and porotic hyperostosis. I think that this was initially meant to go into my predoctoral paper, before I realized that I did not want my … Continue reading →

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