Today was our last day in the lab! We were done with our last burial, and had everything packed up by 10:30am. We finished a whole day and a half earlier!! We're all really proud of ourselves with our progress. It was exciting to finish, but sad at the same time. I've enjoyed this project so much. I wonder what I'm going to do when I get back home...i mean I've been working with bones for 8hrs a day for 4 weeks...I'm going to be really bored. haha. It's weird to be done. Analyzing bones has been my entire life, and I'm happy to find that I'm eager to pursue more endeavors like this. It makes me realise that I'm heading in the right direction with my major and future career. After switching my major multiple times, and feeling the anxiety that comes with indecisiveness, it's a relief to have found the right path for me.
We finished the research with a subadult. The picture associated with this post is the last burial we analyzed. As you can tell from the cranium, it's been modified. This is an extreme example of cranial vault modification at a young age.
I feel such a huge sense of accomplishment now that I'm done with the research. We analyzed over 60 individuals, and washed/ did bone inventory on an insane amount more!! Talk about a busy summer. This is such a huge part of Andean Bioarchaeology, and to realise that I've contributed a significant amount to furthering our knowledge of how past Andean peoples lived and died, is such an excitig feeling. And, to be able to participate in this as an Undergraduate is even more staggering. If you had asked me a year ago what I thought I'd be doing, I couldn't even being to formulate an answer, much less an answer involving Osteology research.
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