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Danielle Kurin, PhD, served as an assistant professor, and later tenured associate professor, of bioarchaeology with the University of California, Santa Barbara department of anthropology, where she taught courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Danielle Kurin's areas of focus as a teacher include subjects such as human evolution, osteology, and forensics, and she supervised students from various institutions at the Phillip Walker Bioarcheology Lab. Proficient in the Quechua language and fluent in Spanish, Dr. Kurin also performs field research in various regions of the Andes. She analyzes human remains and bones with a focus on describing their characteristics, and also conducts isotope and DNA analysis. Her expertise in human remains has enabled her to provide analysis and evidence to law enforcement agencies spanning the United States and Peru. Extensively published in her field, Dr. Kurin authored The Bioarchaeology of Societal Collapse and Reorganization in Ancient Peru (Springer, 2016). Danielle Kurin also presented at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, on the occasion of the opening of the 2015 exhibit The Great Inca Road: Engineering an Empire.

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Dr. Danielle Kurin is a former assistant professor and tenuredassociate professor of anthropology at the University of California at Santa B

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UCSB anthropologist Danielle Kurin examines the effects of the abrupt and catastrophic demise of the Wari Empire 1,000 years agoBy Andrea Es

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UCSB bioarchaeologist Danielle Kurin studies trepanation — a practice of drilling holes in the cranium that dates back thousands of years An

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Dr. Danielle Kurin’s research in bio-archaeological anthropology concentrates on the study of ancient South America, mainly in the Andes, an

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Dr. Danielle Kurin, former Assistant Professor and then tenured Associate Professor of Bioarchaeology at the University of California in San

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An anthropologist and researcher, Danielle Kurin, PhD has led and participated in numerous projects in the Andes as a bioarchaeologist. In t

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Danielle Kurin, PhD, is a bioarchaeology professor and forensic anthropologist formerly with the University of California, Santa Barbara. Wi

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Danielle Kurin holds a PhD in anthropology and served as an assistant professor and then tenured associate professor of bioarchaeology at th

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A former assistant professor and tenured associate professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Danielle Kurin, PhD, possesses

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While teaching archaeology at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 2013 to 2022, Danielle Kurin, PhD, focused her research effor

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Danielle Kurin earned a bachelor’s degree in anthropology & Hispanic studies from Bryn Mawr College in 2005, after which she advanced her st

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An assistant professor at the University of California, Danielle Kurin, holds several degrees in anthropology. In addition to her work as an

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An assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Danielle Kurin holds a BA in anthropology and Hispanic studies from B

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Archaeology is the scientific study of human history and prehistory through the excavation and analysis of artifacts, structures, and other

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Trepanation, or burr holing, is an ancient practice of drilling a hole in the skull to grant access to the brain. This practice was employed

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A September 2011 Scientific American reported on a technological breakthrough that allowed anthropologists to construct fossil replicas, inc

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The field of archaeology centers on uncovering the past through the analysis of artifacts, structures, and tangible remnants. In recent year

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