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    Corpse work
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Jun 16, 2019
    • 3 min

    Corpse work

    This week there was a really interesting conference on "Corpse work", hosted by DaCNet in York. It is a sort of interdisciplinary get tog...
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    Mapping the skull
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Jun 10, 2019
    • 2 min

    Mapping the skull

    This month, I have spent a lot of time at The Book Warren in Willingham (where the lovely Lindsay not only offers a dizzying selection of...
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    Bird footed, bird hipped dinosaurs
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • May 27, 2019
    • 3 min

    Bird footed, bird hipped dinosaurs

    Emerging from the blur of activity with human skeletons from "Things to do when you're dead" (if you're interested in this, you're too la...
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    A lively time at the death event
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • May 21, 2019
    • 1 min

    A lively time at the death event

    Thank to the over 100 people joined the 25 people volunteering their time to tell people about death. We also had about 10 skulls. I won'...
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    Death Fest 2019!
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • May 10, 2019
    • 1 min

    Death Fest 2019!

    Death Fest time is here again! Okay, so we never officially called it that. Instead, this month, I've been helping put the final touches ...
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    Handling death with the death maidens
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Apr 17, 2019
    • 2 min

    Handling death with the death maidens

    As arrangements for the Dying for Life event "Things to do when you're dead"* are hotting up, I'm getting out and about talking to people...
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    Unlikely flights
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Mar 16, 2019
    • 3 min

    Unlikely flights

    This week I went to a talk at Zoology on Palaeognaths. (I spent much of the week guessing what Palaeognaths were... I knew I'd seen the t...
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    Yes, we have kneecaps!
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Mar 10, 2019
    • 1 min

    Yes, we have kneecaps!

    Much belated post after cold and snot induced vertigo. A second time with bird skeletons in the Zoology Museum, so many more bird skeleto...
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    Do birds have kneecaps?
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Feb 1, 2019
    • 2 min

    Do birds have kneecaps?

    I've spent a lot of time in the Zoology museum this month, both front of house (helping people find things in the museum, including the o...
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    Death Wishes
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Jan 13, 2019
    • 2 min

    Death Wishes

    Goodness December was filled with depressing amounts of lying resting on the sofa. Starting to climb out of the fug now, and get active w...
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    Death and football scores
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Nov 30, 2018
    • 2 min

    Death and football scores

    Laid low at the moment. Resting, and hoping to not wake up to this view anytime soon. (Though I had a lovely conversation with someone wh...
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    Honey coloured bones
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Nov 16, 2018
    • 1 min

    Honey coloured bones

    Quick post as I'm up to my eyeballs editing skeleton photos. The local friendly archaeologist has been giving me great access to be able ...
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    Bodyworlds Piccadilly
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Nov 9, 2018
    • 3 min

    Bodyworlds Piccadilly

    Not piccalilli. Not peccadillo. Not even Pickled Liver (though there might have been one). Thank you Siri and iphone autocorrect for tryi...
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    Best story of the month
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Nov 4, 2018
    • 2 min

    Best story of the month

    This month I have been to a number of Death Awareness events: From Selfies to Runes, how do we want to be remembered? Face to Face with M...
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    Art still isn't easy
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Oct 11, 2018
    • 2 min

    Art still isn't easy

    Today I am happy to share some animals from Conrad Gesner's "Icones Animalium". This delight from 1553 (reprinted in 1560 by popular dema...
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    It isn't easy being an artist
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Sep 28, 2018
    • 2 min

    It isn't easy being an artist

    How many woodcuts can a wood cutter cut if a wood cutter needs to illustrate a natural history encyclopedia? Okay, so it's a bad pun. But...
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    Butterflies, bats, fish and flying things
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Aug 17, 2018
    • 1 min

    Butterflies, bats, fish and flying things

    The Zoology Museum in Cambridge is now fully open! (Okay, that's been true for a couple of months, but I've been a bit run down and gotte...
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    Faces of Tutankhamen
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Aug 10, 2018
    • 2 min

    Faces of Tutankhamen

    Also at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology this month (only till 23 September) are some original photos of the tomb of Tutankhame...
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    Horn dancing and headdresses
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Aug 3, 2018
    • 2 min

    Horn dancing and headdresses

    The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) has an exhibition based on the Star Carr finds. If you're not familiar with it, it is th...
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    Things I learnt last week
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Jul 13, 2018
    • 4 min

    Things I learnt last week

    Last week I spent a couple of days at the Material Bodies conference, where archaeologists and historians got together to share and compl...
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