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Bone Broke by Jess Beck is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
Tag Archives: Travel
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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Huerta del Manco
“It’s called Huerta del Manco,” she said in Spanish. “You know what that means?” “Huerta, si.” I told her. I’d come across the word before while translating archaeological texts and it was always used to describe orchards, groves or other … Continue reading
Posted in Travel, Travel Essay
Tagged Andalucía, Andalusia, food, hospitality, La Segura, Spain, Travel
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Sevilla
Trains in southern Spain are always flooded with light. The abundance of sun provides a sharp counterpoint to the blessedly cool Renfe air-conditioning. You often don’t realize how crisp the air is until you move through the train and are … Continue reading
Skopje
[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
Posted in Travel, Travel Essay
Tagged food, Macedonia, Skopje, trains, Travel, Travel Essay
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A Travel Agency for Osteologists…
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
Posted in Travel
Tagged anthropology, bioarchaeology, Macedonia, osteology, Skopje, Travel
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Osteology Everywhere: Edición ‘Bienvenido a España’
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
Posted in Osteology Everywhere, Travel
Tagged Chamartín, Madrid, osteology, Spain, Travel
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Alas, Poor Yorick: The Skulls of Stratford
The image of an actor holding aloft a skull is a familiar cinematic and literary trope. Theatre scholars have noted that the representation is so powerful that it often stands in as a metonymic representation of acting itself (Williamson 2011; … Continue reading
Posted in Cranium, Travel
Tagged Hamlet, osteology, Shakespeare, Skull, Stratford-upon-Avon, Travel, Yorick
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