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This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Migrations are an intrinsic aspect of human societies, past and present. This global character can be used to build a comparative anthropological framework seeking to understand the drivers and consequences of migration. Within this agenda, we seek to comprehend what are the causes and social effects of a rapid migration pulse recorded between AD 1270-1420 in the southern Andes (Uspallata Valley,...
Who Will Remember the Dead? Embodying the People of the Past in Novel Ways (2015)
Archaeologists encounter the people of the past as skeletons with some frequency, yet attempts to reconstruct the life histories of the dead have often been ordinary and predictable. As a scientist and a storyteller, Ruth Tringham's consideration of the dead, inspired by empiricism and imagination in equal measure, imparts multiple truths through multiple voices in novel ways, with a particular focus on visualization. The people of one house at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, for example, are...