Mikhail and Hodj's Political Thread

Pretty much. Paleopathology and paleodemography. Osteological research, which paleopathology is rolled up into. There's a lot of limits on certain remains in the US (Native Americans) in terms of destructive analysis, unfortunately, but those limits aren't so prevalent in Europe and South America, etc.

My professor's research focuses on violence in this region of the states, where there is less NAGPRA related problems because so many of the tribes were wiped out or driven west they don't know who the remains belong to, for instance, all the thousands of skeletal remains they have at our universities' archaeology museum are basically unclaimed Native Americans, so she does a lot of research on the types of physical wounds and diseases that affected different groups in the area.

Araysar_sl said:

come on over and dig up my yard, hodj.

i need someone to get rid of the weeds

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Well you do live in Chicago, so there is a very high chance there might be human remains under that yard...

Lol too bad Egypt is a hellhole now.

At least South America has some mummies too I guess.

There's a lot you can do in the field chemistry wise, not just DNA analysis. You can do stable isotope analysis for carbon and nitrogen, and use that to make inferrences about health status in a community, of course carbon dating and the like. All sorts of neat shit.

I'm sure I'll find a few dead retards to argue with as well.

No, actually that's a great question because a lot of students DO actually think about this type of a career after watching something like Bones and CSI.

Honestly you, of all people, may understand this better than most, since you have a degree in history. I've always been really interested in history, mythology, past cultures and civilizations. This is a way to be a part of that, to help learn more about it. Its just something I've always wanted to do, so I figured I'd do it.

Yeah Indiana Jones is generally a highly cited reason for being an archaeologist and there's definitely some of that in my reasoning as well.

I dunno man, starting in 4th or 5th grade I was really heavily into mythology, read a huge amount on the greeks, romans, norse, egyptians, read a large portion of the bible because was going to church all the time and it seemed to have stories about history and then once I had kids and stuff I spent a good chunk of my time reading a lot of history books and shit. It just kinda eventually felt like the natural direction to move in once I decided to stop being lazy and go to school.

Yeah my parents read to me constantly as a kid because this was before video games lol. I could read really well early. But the school library had all these mythology books that I didn't have at home that I could check out, that was where it started. Then I moved over to fantasy and sci fi for awhile and then moved heavily into history.

The first time I went to college I was going to do something in the IT/CS area because back in the late 90s early 2000s that was all the rage. I had absolutely no passion for it at all

I like building personal computers but not enough to do it for a living.

Dr Seuss bro.

I read every single Dr Seuss book more times than I can count.