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Bone Broke by Jess Beck is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
Tag Archives: anthropology
Effective Conference Presentations and Networking
Note: Shocking as this was to discover, today marks the sixth birthday of the Bone Broke blog. My first post, “OsteoMenagerie I: The Navicular“, went up on May 2, 2013. It is tempting to open this post with a snarky … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Conferences, Grad School
Tagged anthropology, conferences, networking, professional development
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Field Trip to Ampoița
I have been absent from the blog for several months because I’ve been working with my friend and collaborator Colin Quinn to prepare our first season of excavation in Alba County, Romania as part of the ongoing Mortuary Archaeology of the Râmeț Bronze … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Fieldwork, Travel
Tagged Alba Iulia, anthropology, archaeology, Fieldwork, Horizon 2020, Mama Luța, MARBAL, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, MSCA-EF, Romania, Romanian Food
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Bone Broke Year in Review 2017
In 2018 I will approach my goals with the predatory enthusiasm of a lion stalking its prey in Nairobi National Park, rather than the sluggish determination of a snail forced to engage in slow-motion acrobatics due to lack of foresight, … Continue reading
AAA 2017 – Washington D.C.
I moved to the UK at the beginning of October, so it no doubt seems strange that I scheduled a trip abroad less than two months later. However, the quick turnaround was for a worthwhile anthropological cause: in late November … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Travel
Tagged #AmAnth17, AAA, anthropology, conferences, Washington D.C.
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New Blog: Mortuary Archaeology of the Râmeț Bronze Age Landscape
In my last post, I promised an update regarding my latest bioarchaeological endeavours. The twist is that the update won’t come on this blog. As you may recall, I spent about ten days in October gallivanting about the Apuseni mountains, with … Continue reading
Posted in Bioarchaeology, Blogging, MARBAL
Tagged anthropology, archaeology, bioarchaeology, Blog, Bronze Age, Human Osteology, MARBAL, Prehistory, Research, Romania, Travel
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Bone Broke Year in Review 2016
As 2016 vanishes into the aether like a monitor lizard slipping into the waters of Lumpini Park, it is time to reflect on the last year at Bone Broke. A picture is worth a thousand words, so I’ll just leave … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Year in Review
Tagged 2016, anthropology, archaeology, blogging, defending dissertation
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My Dissertation Defense
It’s been a quiet month on the blog. My absence has been due to the fact that I’ve been up to lots of different things, including: Participating in the University of Michigan Preparing Future Faculty program (through which I was … Continue reading
Bone Broke Year in Review 2015
2015 was a year of firsts. It was the first time I spent the summer in Ann Arbor, rather than the field. It marked my first experience solo teaching my own class, the summer session Science of Skeletons. I also began applying … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Year in Review
Tagged 2015, anthropology, archaeology, blogging, dissertation
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Four-Field Talk Tomorrow: Bare Bones?
The department that I’m part of is a four-field anthropology department, meaning that it contains archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, linguistic anthropologists, and biological anthropologists. Four-field approaches are valuable because they encompass the whole scope of human cultural practices and behaviors, examining … Continue reading
Posted in Bioarchaeology, Talks
Tagged anthropology, archaeology, bioarchaeology, Biological Anthropology, Four-field anthropology, snacks
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Hip hip hooray: Orienting and identifying features of the os coxae
One of the ranges in my museum is decorated with a number of different osteological puns, and every time I walk past their on point door makes me jealous. I’ve always been particularly envious of the “Hip Hip Hooray” slogan, … Continue reading
Posted in Anatomy, Osteology
Tagged anthropology, Forensic Anthropology, How to identify a pelvis, iliac crest, ilium, innominate, ischium, os coxa, ossa coxae, osteology, pelvis, pubis
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