A commonplace conundrum in many—if not all—fields of study is the correct application of an object’s/idea’s/situation’s (as well as a series of these) provenance to the overall context of a circumstance, and archaeology is no different. It is very easy, while working so adamantly in your own unit, to forget that the information gleaned from [...]
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Valerie Leah
I’ve grown accustomed to my hours volunteering in an enclosed, dusty, scholarly and relatively cramped—though immensely appreciated—laboratory in the recesses of Giltner Hall, where Dr. Todd Fenton and many graduate Anthropology students at Michigan State University have been diligently working (in conjunction with the British Museum in London, England) to establish a human skeletal research [...]
I’m Valerie Leah and I am senior studying Anthropology (B.Sc.) and Peace and Justice Studies here at Michigan State University. I am currently the Events Coordinator for the MSU Undergraduate Anthropology Club, am an Undergraduate Education Assistant for the MSU Biological Sciences Department, and am a volunteer at the MSU Nubian Bioarchaeology Research Lab. My [...]
