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Childhood, Motherhood, and the Body in Iron Age Europe: Interview with Professor Katharina Rebay-Salisbury

Tides of History

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The Importance of Relating to Human Remains

I think there is times where I'm personally very detached from that, where I sort through boxes of human remains and don't really think much about it. But then some particular fades of people and especially some particular age groups do touch me. And when I was working on early Bronze Age sites with lots of evidence for violence and interpersonal violence, bone fractures of the worst kind were common. So in a way also always a momento mori when you work with human remains. You think about your own mortality. It's such a privilege to work with the remains of other people to try and learn about the past.

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