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Fairmont State professor, student to participate in human remain excavation
Fairmont State University’s Kristy Henson, assistant professor of forensic science, and sophomore, Alexandra Knighten, have been chosen to participate in a bioarchaeology excavation with the Institute for Research and Learning of Archaeology and Bioarchaeology (IRLAB) in May.
Students Experience Field School in Altopascio, Italy
Boise State University, Anthropology Department Newsletter, page 6 (Boise, ID)
Bioarcheologist shares tales from excavation in Italy
Archaeologists look for Irish Immigrants who died of cholera while building the Ohio Canal. Then, we'll take a look at the care and tending of the oldest cemeteries in Columbus, plus Green Lawn Abbey preservation.
Hunting for germs in an ancient graveyard
The third cholera pandemic in recorded history—and the deadliest—began in India sometime in the mid-1800s, making its way across Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas throughout the 1850s. By the time it subsided in 1860, the pandemic had killed more than a million people around the world—which, luckily for Clark Larsen, included the victims buried in the mass grave at Badia Pozzeveri, an ancient church in the small town of Altopascio, Italy.