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Dorsal view of adult sacrum from box RU-9 showing spina bifida

During the fall semester (Sept-Dec 2018), students from Bryn Mawr and Haverford helped to clean and catalog the remains at Rutgers-Camden as part of a praxis course led by Professor Maja Šešelj. The following post if from one such student  --- Bryn Mawr student Caitlin Smith.  Caitlin Smith is a senior at Bryn Mawr College who is majoring in anthropology with a thesis research focus in bioarchaeology.​

 

Spina Bifida in the Arch Street Population... Read More

Posted February 5, 2019 by Kimberlee Moran

During the fall semester (Sept-Dec 2018), students from Bryn Mawr and Haverford helped to clean and catalog the remains at Rutgers-Camden as part of a praxis course led by Professor Maja Šešelj. The following post if from one such student  --- Bryn Mawr student Makenna Lenover.  Makenna has conducted past research on epiphyseal fusion and is interested in developmental processes​.

How to Determine the Age of a Subadult Individual Based on Bones

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Posted January 28, 2019 by Kimberlee Moran

During the fall semester (Sept-Dec 2018), students from Bryn Mawr and Haverford helped to clean and catalogue the remains at Rutgers-Camden as part of a praxis course led by Professor Maja Šešelj. The following post if from one such student  --- Bryn Mawr student Elizabeth McGuire.


Molecular Methods to Map Migration

By Elizabeth McGuire, Bryn Mawr College

When anthropologists examine human skeletal remains, they can tell a lot about... Read More

Posted December 20, 2018

Over the summer, the Arch Street Project team was busy cleaning human remains.  The work was spread over three sites: The College of New Jersey, Rutgers-Camden, and the basement of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (home of the Mütter Museum and Mütter Research Institute).  Quite a few students and volunteers worked with us on this monumental task.  The following post is from one such volunteer - Haotian Cao, a student from... Read More

Posted October 18, 2018 by Kim Eberle-Wang
A set of muddy bones from G-287, an adult male,  waiting to be dry- and wet-brushed in the Mütter Bone Lab. The brown bags typically keep together sets of smaller bones such as those from the hands and feet.

Over the summer, the Arch Street Project team was busy cleaning human remains.  The work was spread over three sites: The College of New Jersey, Rutgers-Camden, and the basement of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (home of the Mütter Museum and Mütter Research Institute).  Quite a few students and volunteers worked with us on this monumental task.  The following post is from one such volunteer - Leah Strayer, a student from... Read More

Posted September 20, 2018 by Kimberlee Moran

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