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n. 1. The act or process of explaining about death 2. Something that explains about death 3. A mutual clarification of misunderstandings about death; a reconciliation.

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Monthly Archives: January 2014

More than a thesis…

January 31, 2014by alisonatkin 3 Comments

On Monday and Tuesday of this week the Archaeology Department held its annual postgraduate workshop. Over the two days current first- and third-year PhD students present their projects to other […]

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‘Breaking’ News: Four (January 25th – 31st)

January 31, 2014by alisonatkin Leave a comment

It’s a smallish link round-up this week due to busyness. OSTEOLOGY “We’re experts in water pipes not human bodies…” ‘Medieval’ skull found during Huntingdon drain repair. More details unearthed about […]

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‘Breaking’ News: Three (January 18th – 24th)

January 24, 2014by alisonatkin Leave a comment

OSTEOLOGY The body snatchers: corpse and effect. Piers Mitchell on the history and archaeology behind it all. Fascinating. Unusual tomb belonging to the Złockie culture found in Poland. Skeptical face. […]

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‘Breaking’ News: Two (January 11th- 17th, 2014)

January 17, 2014by alisonatkin Leave a comment

Here linkies, linkies, linkies! OSTEOLOGY Interesting article on Hatemui (‘the boy priest’) mummy that is on display in Swindon. Who are the dead Maya in this underwater cave and why […]

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Multiply this ad campaign by zero.

January 16, 2014by alisonatkin Leave a comment

Riiight… On Monday Coca-Cola re-launched their zero sugar and zero calorie drink Coke Zero in the UK. The company says that the new ‘Just Add Zero’ campaign is “designed to […]

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Breaking news “blogpost”.

January 15, 2014by alisonatkin 1 Comment

Yesterday a news article came up in my reader with the headline: Historic ‘skeleton’ found as Stockton footpath is dug up by workmen ‘Skeleton’? Consider me intrigued. From the article: […]

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The Plague House: Bringing History Home

January 14, 2014by alisonatkin 2 Comments

In Warrington, there is a wall. I mean, of course there are many walls in Warrington, but there is one wall in particular that I find intriguing. On July 10, […]

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‘Breaking’ News: One (January 1st- 10th, 2014)

January 10, 2014by alisonatkin Leave a comment

Many of you (some of you) will have noticed that lately I have begun tweeting a great many more (than usual) new links. These are mostly related to archaeology and […]

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Burke and Ha…aaang on a minute!

January 7, 2014by alisonatkin 4 Comments

Right. I was going to write about life tables this week*. But then this happened. Yeah, that’s right! Headline: “Shallow grave bones linked to Burke and Hare.” [Cue Osteologist Me] […]

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Sherlock Bones*

January 3, 2014by alisonatkin 4 Comments

[WARNING: Contains minor spoilers from Sherlock Season 3 Episode 1: The Empty Hearse.] On Wednesday I, like 9199999 other people, sat down to watch the much anticipated Season 3 opener […]

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