Becoming Dr. Bonesaw with Naomi Martisius - Ep 189

This week, Amber's under the weather, so Anna goes solo with special guest Dr. Naomi Martisius. Naomi tells us how she deciphers clues about human behavior by looking at tiny tiny VERY tiny portions of animal bone surfaces under a microscope. We’ll get into her undergraduate discovery that re-wrote a part of prehistory (no, really), and her work on the extremely cool bone artifacts and ornaments from Bacho Kiro Cave, in what is today Bulgaria.

Interested in learning about how to use X-Rays and similar technology in archaeology? Check out the linked PaleoImaging course from James Elliot!

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• Naomi's Bacho Kiro paper in the Journal of Human Evolution--available for free until June 25th!

• Amber's Fundraiser for Holler Health Justice

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Still Spooktober: They Built It on a Haunted Burial Ground - Ep 67

Spooktober winds to a close once again, and we end with a mystery. Bundle up and join Anna and Amber at Roopkund Lake, where bones scatter the shore and speculation and science meet. Who were the people whose skeletal remains keep appearing in a remote lake in northern India? How did they get there? How might we find out?

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• Nanda Devi Raaj Jat Yatra (Uttarakhand Tourism)

• 10 Things You Should Know About Nanda Devi Raj Jat Yatra (eUttarakhand)

• Roopkund Lake (EcoIndia)

• There's A Frozen Lake In India That's Full Of Skeletons. What On Earth Happened Here? (IFL Science)

• Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India (Atlas Obscura)

• Mystery Solved - The Skeleton Lake of India (Science, Dummy) cw: human remains

• Inside Roopkund Lake, The Curious Indian Lake Where Skeletons Wash Ashore (All That’s Interesting)

• Tourists to Roopkund trek back with human skeletons (The Indian Express)

• The Mystery of ‘Skeleton Lake’ Gets Deeper (The Atlantic)

• Biomolecular analyses of Roopkund skeletons show Mediterranean migrants in Indian Himalaya (Phys.org)

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Fun-A with Fauna - Ep 59

Anna and Amber talk about animal bones and what you can learn from them about domestication! Learn about how selective breeding affects animals' bodies (and also learn that Amber is very afraid of pigs). We also take a detour into Spookytown with some bizarre Iron age animal burials, and top it off with a lovely story about a kitten.

Anna and Amber talk about animal bones and what you can learn from them about domestication! Learn about how selective breeding affects animals' bodies (and also learn that Amber is very afraid of pigs). We also take a detour into Spookytown with some bizarre Iron age animal burials, and top it off with a lovely story about a kitten.

Links

• Top Signs of Animal Domestication (ThoughtCo)

• Early Date for Horse Domestication in Kazakhstan (Current World Archaeology)

• The boneyard of the bizarre that rewrites our Celtic past to include hybrid-animal monster myths (The Independent)

• Ritual and Burial: The Strange and Elaborate Ways Humans Prepared Animals for the Afterlife (Ancient Origins)

• Ancient bobcat buried like a human being (Science)

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