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  • CT Scan Reveals Valuable Information Inside Intact Mummies

    An anthropologist and researcher, Danielle Kurin, PhD has led and participated in numerous projects in the Andes as a bioarchaeologist. In this role, Danielle Kurin oversees excavations and analyses of human remains found at various sites in Peru and Bolivia. Among those remains are mummies. A mummy is the body of a human or animal…

  • Examining Skeletons to Determine the Fate of the Chanka

    Dr. Danielle Kurin, former Assistant Professor and then tenured Associate Professor of Bioarchaeology at the University of California in Santa Barbara, focuses her research on ancient Latin American civilizations. One of Dr. Danielle Kurin’s projects involved analyzing human skeletons from the Chanka civilization in the Sondor region through the Andahuaylas Bioarchaeology Project. According to scholars,…

  • Data Analysis – Making Sense of Numbers in Computational Anthropology

    Dr. Danielle Kurin’s research in bio-archaeological anthropology concentrates on the study of ancient South America, mainly in the Andes, and for the period from about 600 AD to the present. Kurin, a former assistant professor and tenured associate professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara directed the Phillip Walker Bio-archaeology Lab there, taught in…

  • Ancient Cranial Surgery

    UCSB bioarchaeologist Danielle Kurin studies trepanation — a practice of drilling holes in the cranium that dates back thousands of years Andrea Estrada UCSB Current, 2013 Santa Barbara, CA Cranial surgery is tricky business, even under 21st-century conditions (think aseptic environment, specialized surgical instruments and copious amounts of pain medication both during and afterward).However, evidence…

  • Societal Collapse and Regeneration

    UCSB anthropologist Danielle Kurin examines the effects of the abrupt and catastrophic demise of the Wari Empire 1,000 years agoBy Andrea Estrada, 2016UCSB Current, Santa Barbara, CA In her new book, “The Bioarchaeology of Societal Collapse and Regeneration in Ancient Peru” (Springer, 2016), anthropologist Danielle Kurin explores how individuals, small groups and, indeed, entire populations…

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