Tag Archives: Mexico
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 [...]
Contemporary Issues
What makes a museum relevant? What role should a museum play in its community? Which communities should a museum serve? How and why? How do you define culture? Is it important? Those are some of the questions being discussed by ASM staff these days.
Why do you visit museums? What do you expect to see or [...]
