Tag: Excavation

• Archaeology, Death Positivity and Public Engagement

  

  Robyn Lacy entered the field of Archaeology with vague ideas of how she wanted to proceed. Every one of which got tossed out the window after a trip to Ireland, surveying rural Catholic and Anglican cemeteries and churchyards. Robyn hasn’t swayed from burial-related study since.

  Death and the Maiden

  24/11/2017

  Guest Post

  Archaeology, Burial, burial ground, Canada, Death, Death Positive, Excavation, Graves, gravestones, History, public engagement, Research

• Excavation & Emotion

  I have been asking archaeologists how they go about their work as professionals and people as part of my PhD research in which I am exploring what impact emotion has on the practice of UK mortuary archaeology. I have interviewed and worked alongside field, forensic, academic, student and museum archaeologists, as well as osteologists and…

  Death and the Maiden

  03/08/2015

  Guest Post

  Academic, Archaeology, Burial, Career, Deadmaidens, Death, Emotion, Excavation, Experiences, Fieldwork, Human Remains, London, Mortuary Archaeology, PhD, Practice, Research, Spitalfields, Study

• Skeletons in My Life’s Closet

  Jelena Bekvalac is a Curator of Human Osteology at the Centre for Human Bioarchaeology, Museum of London. As a life course becoming a museum curator and working with human skeletal remains was not one that she carefully planned. From exciting opportunities in London to excavations in Jordan and Prague Jelena takes us on a journey down her fascinating…

  Death and the Maiden

  19/06/2015

  Guest Post

  Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Career, Curator, Deadmaidens, Death, Excavation, Exhibitions, Experiences, Human Remains, London, Museum, Museum of London, Osteology, Research, Skeletal Remains, Skeletons, Travel, Wellcome Trust