Tag Archives: bioarchaeology
Life as Expressed in Death
Today’s blog is written by ASM’s bioarchaeologist Dr. James Watson. I was recently asked by archaeologists at the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia Sonora (INAH: National Institute of Anthropology and History) to come to Hermosillo to analyze several prehistoric human skeletons that had been recently recovered from several archaeological investigations throughout the state. Skeletal [...]
Ancient life in the driest desert in the world: a report from the field
Today’s blog is a report from the field by Dr. James Watson who has been in Chile teaching and researching supported by a Fulbright award. When I arrived in Arica, Chile to start four months of research on the dental health of some of the world’s oldest skeletons I had no idea how barren a [...]
