Alison Atkin, graduate student of archaeology at the University of Sheffield, made a brilliant poster on the modeling of plagued versus non-plagued cemetery collections. The poster debuted at the British Association of Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO) conference, where it won the Bill White prize (Atkin, 2014)! It will also be… Read more“A Poster Child for Academic Posters”
Tag: bioarchaeology
Drink Two Mugs and Call Me in the Morning
Wired has a neat article about the antibacterial properties found in ancient alcohol brewed by the Nubians of Sudan. The Nubians are one of the core case studies in bioarchaeology. All kinds of studies in my field have been done with their remains but, as this article shows, there’s always… Read more“Drink Two Mugs and Call Me in the Morning”