bioarchaeology Archives

Bones Found In Japan Tell The Story Of The First Samurai From England 0
- Health & Medicine
- December 15, 2020
In 1931, a Japanese team found what was believed to be the burial site of Miura Anjin, the first Samurai from England. The skeletal was then reburied, and it was only almost nine decades later that scientists excavated the site again and analysed the remains with modern techniques.
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Mutiny, Butchery, and A Doomed Power Struggle: The Wreck of the Batavia Examined Using Bioarchaeology 0
- Earth & Environment
- December 16, 2012
Off the coast of Western Australia, roughly 80km from the shore, sits a chain of 122 islands called the Houtman Abrolhos. In 1629, the Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie) ship The Batavia ran aground on the Morning Reef, about 45km from the coast. The 316 men, women, and children on board were of
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