The Scienceblogging Weekly (August 11th, 2012)

August 11, 2012, 7:38 am by Scientific American: Health

Blog of the Week: Kristina Killgrove ( Twitter ) is a bioarchaeologist. Her blog Powered By Osteons covers a wide spectrum of topics on archaeology, bioanthropology, and the classical world. But what it has the most, and is most exciting, are bones. Lots of bones. Human bones. Skulls and femurs and pelvises and what we can learn about the past from studying them. [More]

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