ANTH 4997 course replicates hominid scavenging processes

September 27, 2016

University students are taking learning — and fresh animal bones — into their own hands.

On Sept. 21, students in assistant anthropology professor Juliet Brophy’s paleoecology and taphonomy course used found rocks to break open bovine long bones outside the Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex. In the course, students study the processes that affect bones following an animal’s death, Brophy said.

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