Dr. Briana Pobiner – What can cut marks tell us about human evolution, migration, and behavior?
Dr. Briana Pobiner of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's Human Origins Program joins the show to talk about cut marks. She...
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AnthroBiology Podcast
The AnthroBiology Podcast sits down with biological anthropologists every other week to learn about what they do and why it's rad. Want to know more about our evolutionary past? Or what your...
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20 of 75 episodesDr. Christiane Baigent – How do bodies decompose at high altitude? Colorado Mesa University's FIRS body farm
Dr. Christiane Baigent of Colorado Mesa University runs the Forensic Investigation Resource Station (FIRS), which is the highest body farm i...
Dr. Raquel Fleskes – Using Ancient DNA to interpret historical sites
Dr. Raquel Fleskes of Dartmouth joins the show to talk about her work using ancient DNA to uncover the past in the Tidewater and South Carol...
Dr. Andrew Best – Why do humans sweat?
Dr. Andrew Best of the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts joined the show to talk about sweat -- what it is, when we do it, how we vary,...
Decoding cemeteries: A historian's guide to death symbolism, power structures, and tech in early American burial grounds
Ron Romano of Spirits Alive (a non-profit dedicated to preserving Eastern Cemetery and its history) joins the show to talk about gravestone...
Dr. Wakefield & Dr. Neidich – Death in early New York mental health institutions
Dr. Wakefield (Northeast College) and Dr. Neidich (University of Missouri) joined the show to discuss their research on death in early New Y...
Dr. Brian Villmoare – Using teeth to help fill in the blanks of human evolution
Dr. Brian Villmoare of the University of Nevada - Las Vegas shares how his team found teeth in Ethiopia and what those teeth might mean in t...
Keri Porter – What can head trauma tell us about violence in an emerging Bronze Age city? Plus: How to apply for grad school
Keri Porter, a PhD candidate at Notre Dame University, joins the show to discuss their research on patterns of violence in a Bronze Age urba...
Dr. Maria Nieves-Colón and Jaime Zolik, MA – Working with Ancient DNA and descendent communities in Peru
Dr. Maria Nieves-Cólon and Jamie Zolik join the show to discuss their ancient DNA research in San Luis de Cañete and what it can reveal abou...
Dr. Eric Shattuck – How do humans act when we get sick and why?
Dr. Eric Shattuck of Florida State University joins the show to discuss his research on sickness behavior. He wants to know how humans tend...
Dr. Erin Blankenship-Sefczek – How does developmental stress affect dental morphology?
Summary Dr. Erin Blankenship-Sefczek of Creighton University joins the show to discuss her research examining the connection between develop...
Dr. Samantha Yaussy - What can frailty in skeletons from medieval London teach us about health?
Dr. Samantha Yaussy of James Madison University joins the show to discuss her research on the how sex, socioeconomic status, and development...
Dr. Habiba Chirchir - Why did humans evolve to have less robust skeletons?
Dr. Habiba Chirchir of the Ohio State University joins the show to discuss her research into the skeletal gracilization of modern humans. Sh...
Dr. David Orton – Rats in Europe and Zooarchaeology
Dr. David Orton of the University of York joins the show to discuss how he uses zooarchaeology (the study of animal remains in archaeologica...
Dr. Henry Erlich - Genetic Reconstruction of the Past
Dr. Henry Erlich, Researcher Emeritus at Benioff UCSF Children's Hospital, joins the show to discuss his book, Genetic Reconstruction of the...
Dr. Christopher Schmitt - Vervets and woolly monkeys
Dr. Christopher Schmitt of Boston University joins the show to talk about how he uses life history theory and epigenetics as a lens for his...
Dr. Kate Clancy - Period: The Real Story of Menstruation
Dr. Kate Clancy of Illinois State University Urbana-Champaign joins the show to talk about her book, Period: The Real Story of Menstruation...
Dr. Rebecca Gilmour - Roman bioarchaeology
Dr. Rebecca Gilmour of Mount Royal University talks about bones, their mechanics, and how we can use both to understand humans' lives in the...
Dr. Jesse Goliath - Forensic anthropology
Dr. Jesse Goliath of Mississippi State University joins the show to talk about forensic anthropology, including how he ended up in forensic...
Dr. Christine Drea – Mechanisms of female dominance (hyenas, lemurs, meerkats)
Dr. Christine Drea of Duke University joined the show to talk about mechanisms of female dominance, which is when females of a species are m...