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Using the Dead to Understand Access to Water

July 15, 2014by Kate Meyers Emery 4 Comments

As humans, we cannot survive without water. In the first world, we are privileged to have consistent access to fresh clean water. In many countries, access to water is based […]

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New Interpretations from Old Books: Using Archives to Reassess Mortuary Sites

June 26, 2014by Kate Meyers Emery 3 Comments

When we excavate an archaeological site, all of our paperwork, journals, interpretations, notes, maps, photos, and the artifacts and human remains are put into storage either at a country office, […]

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Methods

Investigating Red-Colored Bones in Mesoamerica

May 22, 2014by Kate Meyers Emery 6 Comments

It isn’t rare to see bones that have a color other than the usual lab-cleaned white or dirt-stained brown. In my post on colored bones from a few years ago, […]

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Bioarchaeology, Methods

What did the Egyptians eat?

April 21, 2014by Kate Meyers Emery 4 Comments

There’s something mystical and wonderful about Ancient Egypt. It is one of the first historical eras that really captured my imagination as a child. In many ways, I think this […]

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Bioarchaeology, Methods

What did Genghis Khan eat?

April 15, 2014by Kate Meyers Emery 10 Comments

Everyone knows something about Genghis Khan. His story and empire is part of the basic history of the world we learn growing up. He came into power by uniting disparate […]

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Bioarchaeology, Methods

Grave Robbing: Not Always What it Seems…

November 26, 2013by Kate Meyers Emery 6 Comments

We’ve talked quite a bit here about the different ways that human remains can be disturbed once they are buried. We’ve had the “5 Reasons to Remove Single Bones from […]

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Bioarchaeology, Cemeteries, Methods

The Prince is Actually a Female (and other gender misconceptions)

October 22, 2013by Kate Meyers Emery 9 Comments

About a month ago, archaeologists found a sealed rock cut tomb in Tarquinia. At the front door before they even opened the tomb, they found jars and vases indicating that […]

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Bioarchaeology, Funeral Practices, Methods

Investigating Kinship in an Early Medieval Necropolis

October 8, 2013by Kate Meyers Emery 1 Comment

There used to be an assumption within archaeology that people who were buried within the same grave or same necropolis were related to one another. In geography, we call this […]

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Bioarchaeology, Cemeteries, Methods

New Morbid Terminology: Cadaveric Spasm

October 1, 2013by Kate Meyers Emery 6 Comments

Understanding the natural and biological processes that affect the human body following death can be extremely important for the interpretation of the skeletal remains following excavation. The way the body […]

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Bioarchaeology, Methods

Continuity or Colonization: Debating Anglo-Saxon Migration

September 12, 2013by Kate Meyers Emery 12 Comments

Recently, I  have been reading quite a bit about migration during the Early Medieval period. Traditional narratives of this period tend to argue that as the Roman Empire was declining […]

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Bioarchaeology, Methods

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