Danielle Kurin is an authority in archaeology. She served as an assistant professor and later tenured associate professor of bioarchaeology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has served as a visiting professor at the Archaeology Laboratory & Graduate School, Universidad Nacional de San Cristóbal de Huamanga, Ayacucho, Peru. Danielle Kurin’s authored the book The Bioarchaeology of Societal Collapse and Reorganization in Ancient Peru, which was published in 2016.
The first step in any bioarcheological work is looking for the bones of people present in the society during the reviewed period. This study calls for identifying possible burial places through research and excavating them. The archaeological excavation might have to go through several buried structures before locating the targeted burial place, as structures might have been built over the burial places over the years. But this is not the case in every excavation. The manner of burial can tell scientists a great deal about the buried person's social standing. Studying ancient skeletons through observation and via technological aids like X-rays, mass spectrometers, and DNA analysis can be quite revealing. Different bones can provide details about diet, lifestyle, overall health, and class level. These findings help provide evidence about the lifestyles prevalent in the studied society when they were alive.
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