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Textbook of the Week: The Archaeology of Death and Burial. > Every week we highlight one archaeology/anthropology textbook from > our suggested readings, a full list of our s...

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Quick Tips: How To Estimate The Chronological Age Of A Human Skeleton – Sternal Rib End Method. > This Quick Tips post is the sixth in the series on age estimation on > skele...

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First Early Iron Age Burials Found In Dorset. #Archaeology #Anthropology > Archaeologists have discovered crouched burials of three skeletons, > which are believed to be from th...

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Quick Tips: Archaeological Techniques –Use of Isotopes in Archaeology. > Isotopic analysis is widely used within the worlds of archaeology > and anthropology. From analysing ...

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Textbook of the Week: Flesh and Bone: An Introduction to Forensic Anthropology. Every week we highlight one archaeology/anthropology textbook from our suggested readings, a full list of our s...

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Unusual-ology: “Amazonian Warrior” Burial Unearthed In Russia. > Archaeologists from the Russian Institute of Archaeology, led by > Roman Mimohod, have made a fascinating ...

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Quick Tips – Common Questions: Why are some diseases more easily identified on skeletal remains than others? > This is a Quick Tips post providing a basic answer to a commonly ...

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Fourth century settlement unearthed in Japan. > Archaeologists excavating in Nara Prefecture, Japan have discovered > the remains of pit houses and ditches that indicate the...

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quartercirclegames : > The Peterson Case is an exciting horror game which will keep you on > the edge of your seat – play as detective Franklin Reinhardt as > you e...

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Dental hypoplasia is a condition that affects the enamel of a tooth. It is characterised by pits, grooves and transverse lines which are visible on the surface of tooth crowns. The lines, groove...

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Archaeologists have found three Inca child mummies dating back to 500yrs on the top of the 22,000ft summit of the Mount Llullaillco volcano in Argentina. One of the mummies found is that of a t...

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There are numerous markers on a human skeleton which can provide archaeologists and anthropologists with an estimate age of the deceased. We can age skeletal remains to a rough estimate, as ove...

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Archaeologists in Moab, Utah, have discovered the remains of six Utahraptors within a nine-ton block of sandstone. This discovery is regarded as the biggest fossil find ever of the Utahraptor, a ...

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A recent news story has brought to the attention of the public the topic of ‘vampiric burials’, due to the discovery of a 16th/17th century ‘vampiric burial’ in Poland. These burials ha...

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Another method of chronologically aging human skeletal remains is by observing the cranial suture closure sites. The human skull has seventeen unique cranial fusion sites (Figure 1), that are pos...

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An anthropologist can obtain a wide and varied collection of information from examining teeth. Information such as paleodiets and palaeoenvironments can be learnt from studying a population, or f...

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A team of archaeologists in Hierakonpolis have unearthed an ancient Egyptian animal cemetery, which has uncovered the remains of numerous exotic animals. The skeletal remains of numerous baboons,...

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Dental caries, also known as tooth decay, is thought to be the most common of dental diseases. This is due to it being recorded within archaeological populations more frequently than other dental...

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The recent winter storms that rocked Britain have uncovered a lot of the isles’ hidden archaeology including a petrified forest in Wales, but it has also damaged many coastal heritage sites. In...

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Phytoliths are a very important identification tool in identifying plants within ancient environments, often even classifying down to the species of the plant. But firstly, what are phytoliths?...

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