I miss being able to wheel the mobile bone lab into classrooms and provide new and fun learning experiences for people. I had hoped to bring it back in 2021, but that didn’t happen. Instead, I said ‘yes’ to a lot of different opportunities that really boiled down to me teaching storytelling and science communication […]
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The Rockstar Anthropologist Blog Lives!
I am so excited to off hiatus! I planned to re-launch officially on September 16th, but I realize that as I create new content and add it to the site, email notifications to my existing Read More
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Head Hunters: Anthropology and the Skull Obsessed Series Intro
I don’t think that you will ever walk into the office of an anthropologist or an anthropology museum or anywhere where anthropology is being practiced and not find a skull. I don’t think Read More
He called over to our professor and in his very poised British accent announced, "we have some lytic lesions here." Read More
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Fun Facts About Skeletons 2019
It’s back to school time and I thought it would be great to kick off the year with some fun facts about human bones. Let’s jump right in! Human adult skeletons are Read More
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Part Three of the Black History Month Series: From NYC
This is part three (final) of the 2019 Black History Month series on two important sites- the African Burial Grounds in NYC and a tiny island called St. Helena. Sorry, it was delayed, but Black History Read More
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Black History Series: The Liberated African Graveyard of St. Helena,
This is part two of the 2019 Black History Month series on two important sites- the African Burial Grounds in NYC and a tiny island called St. Helena. In this second part, I’ll discuss the Read More
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Announcement: Black History Series: From NYC to St. Helena- The
Because World Anthropology Day and Black History Month occur in the same month, and I wanted to spend some time talking about a topic I love (re: that February holiday day about love). I decided Read More
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Tales From The Grave: Sacralization of the Lumbar
This is a small series that will focus on some of the types of trauma, pathology and degeneration I examined will at the Odyssey Field School in Cyprus. Please note that the images included are Read More
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Tales from the Grave: Concha Bullosa
This is a small series that will focus on some of the types of trauma, pathology, interesting variations and degeneration I examined while in Cyprus at the Odyssey Field School. Please note that the images Read More
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How I Spent My Summer Vacation: Forensic Anthropology In a
I’m super excited to write this post because it means I did something really cool! I originally had this scheduled to post two weeks after I returned, but I wanted to compare my experience Read More
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The Bones of Fortune: Enslaved In the Cabinet
In the early years of medical practice, it would not have been uncommon for a doctor to have skeletons and other kinds of human remains and soft tissue preserved in their labs and offices. In Read More
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The (Possible) Bones of ‘The Unsullied’
Earlier today, I was reading a report published on Nature.com about the pathology of an 18th century singer named Gaspare Pacchierotti. What made this article particularly compelling was that the singer was castrated, Read More
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But is it human, though?
I get news alerts every day all day about a variety of headlines pertaining to anthropology, science, culture and, specifically, skeletal remains. The other day, my friend was watching one of those ‘CSI’, ‘Bones’ types Read More
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Skeletons found under Afghan Presidential Palace. What Happens Next?
Imagine you are renovating your home, and as you break ground towards your new dream kitchen, you also break into a tomb or two. This happens more often than you might think! It happened just Read More
