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 […]
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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 […]
Environmental Change = Mortuary Change?
Last week I posted on the recent discovery that a mass burial from medieval London can actually be attributed to a volcano rather than plague. I discussed the importance of […]
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 […]
Bones Don't Lie 