Death through the eyes of science, history, and anthropology
Hello! I have returned from another inordinately long break in between posts to talk at length about things relating to dead people once again. I've been busy with Funeral School and my Funeral Job, and, through a fault that was entirely my own, had to spend the majority of my evenings that past couple of… Continue reading Bodysnatching for Science: Charles Byrne’s Stolen Bones
So, since this is a death-and-related-things focused blog, I figured that I might as well delve into a pretty fundamental aspect of the whole death thing and write about what happens to something that was alive after it dies. Of course, decomposition isn't the only thing that can happen to an organism after it dies (I… Continue reading Deconstructing Decomposition: The Process of Decay
Bodies: seeing, representing and handling human remains
All things archaeology, but mostly dead animals.
Occam's Trowel, Sifting archaeological fringe to get to archaeological fact.
I study dead babies from the past
Archaeology -- Pseudoarchaeology -- School -- The good, bad, and the ugly about life in the trenches and life as a student
~Macabre~Cadabra~ 