WCC, Michigan to Ilo, Peru Travel Part 1
May 24 was our travel day. For most of the anthropology students, we got up exceptionally early to get to the Detroit Airport where we flew to Boston, Mass., from Boston to Fort Lauderdale, Florida and then from Fort Lauderdale to Lima, Peru. After arriving in Lima, we passed through immigration and customs with little …
Bone Boot Camp: Week 2 Summary
Bone Boot Camp Day 6- May 18, 2015 We took our quiz on the teeth before we resumed learning more about our dental inventory. Besides siding the teeth and noting defects, we now needed to record pathology. Two of them are hypoplasias, which are lines and pits on the tooth’s surface, and opacilies, which is malformed enamel. We …
Bone Boot Camp: Week 1 Summary
Bone Boot Camp Day 1- May 11, 2015 Our instructor, Dr. Barrett, shared his class expectations before he showed us the Youtube video clip, “The Secret of the Desert Mummies – The Chiribaya,” featuring our future host, Dr. Sonia Guillén. Afterwards, we received an overview of the bones. We learned how to set up our skeletons in Standard …
Welcome to WCC’s Peru Study Abroad Blog
Hello and welcome to WCC’s Peru Study Abroad Blog! My name is Erin Fedeson, and I am one of the Washtenaw Community College students who is going on the 2015 Peru trip. I am able to do this by taking Dr. Christopher Barrett’s ANT 164: Bioarchaeology and Culture of Peru class offered at WCC during the …