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Bone Broke by Jess Beck is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
Tag Archives: bioarchaeology
SAA 2017 – Manipulated Bodies: Investigating Postmortem Interactions with Human Remains
I’m currently in Vancouver, spending a few extra days in the city after attending the 2017 Society for American Archaeology meetings. At the moment I’ve been waylaid by a merciless head cold, but you don’t have to be at the … Continue reading
Posted in Bioarchaeology, Conferences, Travel
Tagged #SAA2017, archaeology, bioarchaeology, secondary burial, Vancouver
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Archaeological fieldwork in Romania
In mid-October I had one of those hellish trans-Atlantic journeys that are the stuff of nightmares. I left for the Pittsburgh airport at 230 am, flew to Chicago, spent 9 hours in O’Hare, flew to Dublin, booked it through the … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Fieldwork, Travel
Tagged Apuseni mountains, archaeology, bioarchaeology, Bronze Age, Fieldwork, Romania, Transylvania
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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
AAPAs 2016 – Atlanta
[TL;DR version of post: I’m presenting a poster on some of my collaborative Iberian research at the AAPAs tomorrow. Session 31 (Skeletal Biology: Bioarchaeology), docket 19, Atrium Ballroom A/B. I’ll be there from 4:00-4:45 – come say hi!] Another day, … Continue reading
Posted in Bioarchaeology, Conferences
Tagged #AAPA2016, AAPA, Atlanta, bioarchaeology, conferences, Iberia, posters
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Osteology Everywhere: College Bar Edition
This past Monday night I grabbed a pitcher* with a friend at a local watering hole. After a long day of grappling with histograms of canine metrics, I felt that some time apart from bones in any form was well-warranted: But of … Continue reading
Posted in Carpals, Grad School, Osteology Everywhere
Tagged Beer, bioarchaeology, Good Time Charley's, hamate, manuscript revisions, osteology
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Bioarchaeology Outreach Activities
A few weeks ago the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History hosted Archaeology Day, a biannual event during which local middle school classes visit the museum and participate in different activity stations scattered throughout the building. This year, Abagail Breidenstein … Continue reading
Part of the Family: Age, Identity and Burial in Copper Age Iberia
I don’t spend a vast amount of time on the blog talking about my own bioarchaeological research in Iberia, in part because it already consumes so much of the rest of my life, and in part because it is rarely an … Continue reading
Posted in Bioarchaeology, Publications
Tagged bioarchaeology, children, children in prehistory, Copper Age, Human Osteology, Iberia
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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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Isotopes
In essence, isotopes are different varieties of the same kind of element. Their atoms have the same number of protons but variable numbers of neutrons, meaning that they differ from each other in terms of their atomic weight. For example, carbon-12, … Continue reading
Posted in Bioarchaeology, Bioarchaeology Vocab
Tagged bioarchaeology, carbon, geology, isotopes, mobility, nitrogen, oxygen, strontium
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Piecing together the puzzle: Brown bag at UMMAA
I’ll be giving a talk today at noon at the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. The talk will take place in the Ruthven Museum of Natural History, Room 2009. If you attend, you’ll also get to hear from … Continue reading
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