Historical Bioarchaeology (Other Keyword)
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Taphonomy and the Death Course: Materializing Value in an Anatomical Collection (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Storeroom Taphonomies: Site Formation in the Archaeological Archive" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Huntington Anatomical Collection, part of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History biological anthropology collections, is comprised of just over 3,000 individuals, about 50% of whom were foreign-born immigrants. They died in New York City public institutions between 1893 and 1921 and were...