Archaeological fieldwork in Romania
In mid-October I had one of those hellish trans-Atlantic journeys that are the stuff of nightmares. I left for the Pittsburgh airport at 230 am, flew to Chicago, spent 9 hours in O’Hare, flew to...
View ArticleNew Blog: Mortuary Archaeology of the Râmeț Bronze Age Landscape
In my last post, I promised an update regarding my latest bioarchaeological endeavours. The twist is that the update won’t come on this blog. As you may recall, I spent about ten days in October...
View ArticleHow to Analyze a Prehistoric Commingled Burial
Originally posted on MARBAL: Most of the human skeletal remains that Emilie and I have been analyzing for the past two weeks are either primary burials, or secondary burials of bits of a single...
View ArticleA Day of Archaeology on the MARBAL 2017 Project
Disclaimer: This post is a time-stamped “day in the life” of MARBAL co-director Jess Beck, and is brought to you by approximately 17 cups of coffee. It was written as part of the “Day of Archaeology”...
View ArticleMARBAL Outreach at Cambridge Festival of Ideas
Originally posted on MARBAL: Last week I participated in a public outreach session titled “Unravelling the Stories of the Dead: Rethinking Truth and Evidence Through an Archaeologist’s Lens“, which...
View ArticleSAA 2018 – Washington D.C.
To the surprise of absolutely no one, I’ve just returned to Cambridge from a recent bout of travel, this time to Washington DC for the Society for American Archaeology meetings. This was an unusual...
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