Profs & Pints DC: The Stories in Our Bones

Profs and Pints DC presents: “The Stories in Our Bones,” an introduction to the field of bioarchaeology and what it tells us about life and death in the past, with Jordan Wilson, bioarchaeologist, skeletal biologist, and postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at Georgetown University.

Gather among the living to learn how lessons are taught by the dead.

Join Dr. Jordan Wilson of Georgetown University to dig into the field of bioarchaeology, a science that combines knowledge of human skeletal anatomy with that of past cultures and treatment of the body after death.

Covering bioarchaeology’s history, she’ll describe how researchers first realized that skeletons could be every bit as important to our understanding of the past as artifacts displayed in museums. She’ll also discuss how early research on human skeletal remains unfortunately became intertwined with research in eugenics.

She also will give you an understanding of bioarchaeologists’ methods, teaching you how they…