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Bone Broke by Jess Beck is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
Tag Archives: Bones
Osteology Everywhere: Downing Street Edition
I’m currently in the US, visiting friends for about a week after attending the American Anthropological Society meetings in Washington DC. It’s been a difficult return trip, as I now find myself beset by sunlight until exceedingly late in the evening … Continue reading
Posted in Cambridge, Osteology Everywhere
Tagged Bones, Cambridge, Diaphyses, Downing Street, Osteology Everywhere, Travel
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Osteology Everywhere: Madison Edition
I’ve spent the past week visiting Madison, Wisconsin, eating vast amounts of cheese curds, quaffing pints of New Glarus and Capital beer, and generally having a pretty outstanding time. However, despite the fact that I’ve been treating this trip as a vacation, osteology has … Continue reading
Posted in Osteology Everywhere, Skull, Travel
Tagged anthropology, Bones, food, Madison, osteology, Travel
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Osteology Cakes
I’m currently living in a part of the world where the sun rises at 9:00 am, and sets at 5:00 pm. Given that I’m at approximately 51˚N, this is not cause for apocalyptic alarm but instead reflects the brevity of winter … Continue reading
Posted in Grad School, Osteology
Tagged academia, archaeology, baking, Bones, cakes, food, osteology
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Birthday Bones
This past weekend I took a hike in the Sierras de Jaén to celebrate my birthday, figuring that a day spent outside in the fresh air would be gentler on my liver than my usual celebratory exploits. Gasping for breath after … Continue reading
Posted in Fauna, Long Bones
Tagged animal bones, Bones, hiking, osteology, Spain, Travel, zooarchaeology
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Pop Culture Osteology: Once Upon a Time #2
Intrepid. Swashbuckling. Fearless. All adjectives that describe my tenacious approach to dissertation data collection. Oh wait, no, I’m wrong again. These are all adjectives that describe the rapscallion Captain Hook and imperturbable Emma Swan on ABC’s fairy-tale soap opera Once Upon … Continue reading
Posted in Fauna, Osteology, Pop Osteology
Tagged albatross, birds, Bones, Once, Once Upon a Time, osteology, pterosaurs, TV, zooarchaeology
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Gotta hand it to you: identifying manual and pedal phalanges
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
Posted in Foot, Hand, Osteology
Tagged Bones, Gross Anatomy, Hand and Foot Bones, Human Osteology, Phalanges
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