I like my corpses like I like my pretzels. Salted.
I’ve been reading a lot of interesting food non-fiction books in my sparse free time as a way to relax after long days of dissertation preparation and article writing. I’ve […]
Category Archives: Mummies
Climate Change and the Chinchorro Mummies
The Chinchorro mummies are quite different from the traditional linen-wrapped mummies of Egypt that we often equate this the term ‘mummy’. Recently, these mummies from Chile and Peru have become […]
Waiter, there’s a toe in my drink!
The major news article this past week from Yukon, Canada has the amazing headline “Yukon bar patron swallows famous sourtoe, pays fine, leaves town”. To clarify this right from the […]
Interdisciplinary Insight into Incan Child Sacrifice
The hot news today is the recent PNAS publication of the results of an extensive interdisciplinary study to learn more about Incan child sacrifice. For a decade and a half, […]
New Morbid Terminology: Grave Wax
Grave wax is a wax-like organic substance that appears as crumbly and waxy material consisting mostly of saturated fatty acids that appears in certain graves. The color of the wax depends […]
Excavating the Funerary Bundles of Ancón
The MSU Anthropology department hosted a brown bag featuring Amy Krull, an up and coming scholar in mortuary archaeology from Wayne State University on September 14th. Her presentation was titled […]
Diverse Data to Determine Pre-Dynastic Diet
A new article by Gamza and Irish (2012) from the Journal of Osteoarchaeology combines all the potential evidence of diet from the Predynastic site of Hierkonpolis in Egypt to determine […]
Excavations at Amara West
Amara West is an ongoing excavation done through the British Museum in Sudan that has been taking place since 2008. It is located in Upper Nubia, and dates from 1500 […]
The Soap Man and Lady Revisited
A new type of mummy was found in the late 19th century… in Philadelphia. The unexpected find was unearthed by accident during a construction project in 1875. There are different […]
How not to send your mummy overseas
Earlier this week, a woman was arrested for trying to send a Peruvian mummy to France by mail. The package was intercepted in Bolivia, and the woman detained. She claims […]
Bones Don't Lie 