Speaker for the Dead

I'm an Evolutionary Anthropology PhD student. In general, my interests span across archaeology and physical anthropology This blog has anthropology related posts with some added quirkiness reflecting my personality. If you have an anthro blog and want me to follow you back, just message me!

[livinglife-noregrets]

This is me trying to study for all my finals

[fuckyeaharchaeology]

Ancient Ales: Recreations of Ancient Beers Available for Public Consumption.

In March of 2000 - Dr. Patrick McGovern, the director of Bio-molecular Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the world’s leading experts in ancient beverages, announced that he discovered and deciphered a beer recipe that he believed to have come from King Midas tomb. He requested the aide of any enterprising brewers to help him reverse engineer this ancient and exotic recipe. The winner of this once in a lifetime collaboration was a Delaware-based micro-brewing company known as Dogfish Head Brewery. 

Since then, Dr. McGovern and Dogfish Head Brewery have been working closely to reconstruct ancient beer recipes.  The Brewery have released a total of eight different beers available for public consumption that are based on ancient brews from all over the world. Many of these beers contain ingredients that would be considered extremely unorthodox for our modern tastes- ingredients such as chicory, licorice root, maple syrup, honey, pumpkin, raisins and brown sugar.

You can read more about these “Ancient Ales” here and here.  I personally have tried two of the Ancient Ales: the Midas Touch and the Birra Etrusca. The Midas Touch is definitely an acquired taste, but the Birra Etrusca was especially delicious and remains to this day one of my favorite beers that I ever had. If you are interested in ancient beverages or experimental archaeology, and are of the legal drinking age in America, I highly recommend trying these ancient beers for yourself.  

[recovering-academic]

My mental state by the end of the semester

[jetsetter-life]

jetsetter-life

[archaeologicalnews]

Early Native Americans Raised Turkeys, But Not to Eat

There is little doubt that Native Americans at a Utah site appropriately called Turkey Pen Ruins raised turkeys, but new research concludes that they rarely ate them, and instead raised the large birds for their coveted feathers.

The study involved extensive analysis of amino acid signatures resulting from diet that can be detected in human hair. The research, which has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, represents one of the first analyses of human hair from the American Southwest.

The findings indicate that Native Americans from the Ancestral Pueblo Tradition (also sometimes known as the Anasazi) heavily relied upon corn, showing that “about 80 percent of the calories and protein came from maize,” Read more.

[ihearthisto]

Happy Thanksgiving!

A turkey dinner in the trabecular bone of a tibia!

Thanks histology!

Have a great holiday,

i♡histo

[thejunglenook]

Happy Lucy Day!!!  Celebrate the 41st anniversary of the discovery of this gorgeous (and most complete) Australopithecus afarensis skeleton with a bipedal dance of joy! 

[valdanderthal]

Are we just ignoring the suggestion of linear evolution and the knuckle-walking chimp? 

It’s already led to glaring errors such as this:

 “The Doodle shows an Australopithecus afarensis walking between a chimpanzee and a human, marking the transition between the two species.” -Time Magazine 

[doubledealer93]

Depressed skeleton drinks himself to death

[shethinksof]

A new beauty contest in Ecuador crowned 19-year-old Jenny Guillin as the first Miss “Indigenous Ecuador.” The country known for their rich culture and heritage staged a beauty contest that aims to promote and protect their history.

“We are not museum pieces, we are a culture which is alive"

[confessionsofabrokegradstudent]

What it feels like grad school does to me

[confessionsofabrokegradstudent]

#tbt

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Students at Case Western Reserve University use Microsoft’s “HoloLens” to help them analyze human anatomy using 3D rendering.

[recovering-academic]

Sitting in office hours while activities are happening outside

[spoookyscary]

Extreme rotatory curvature of the spine, from Joseph Coats’s A Manual of Pathology, 1900

[anatoref]

Anatomy Notes

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Visit Original Link

uncanny

Original comic from Poorly Drawn Lines

[recovering-academic]

When a guest speaker event has snacks

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Some of y’all mother fuckers on here are beyond needing Jesus, we’re gonna have to go all the way back to Norse Mythology to find the specific pagan God that will fix your shit. 

[sg-roadbuster]