Animals in China East Asia was once home to a wide variety of animal species that have been displaced over the last few thousand years…
Oracle Bones in East Asia Project Photo by Katherine Brunson Oracle bones are a special type of bone artifact used for divination rituals. They are…
Archaeologists normally spend our summers excavating. Due to COVID-19, several Wesleyan students and archaeology faculty members spent this summer digging into data! Audrey Lam (class…
COURSES Many courses taught in Wesleyan’s Archaeology Program use the Environmental Archaeology Lab collections for hands-on lessons and activities. The lab space is also used…
Boiling Bones! Professor Brunson’s course ARCP257: Environmental Archaeology examines how data gathered from ancient plant remains, animal remains, and soils can be used to interpret…
Teaching with Collections During COVID-19 Report by Dr. Wendi Field Murray, Collections Manager for the Wesleyan University Archaeological and Anthropological Collections. Reposted from the Wesleyan…
Oracle Bone Burning Experiments Fall 2020 Professor Brunson’s ARCP291: East Asian Archaeology course focuses on the study of archaeology in East Asia, especially China. As…
Documenting Middletown Gravestones As course assistants for Professor Brunson’s class, ARCP204: Introduction to Archaeology, Nina and Nick designed a field trip to the Washington Street…
Zooarchaeology and The Tao River Project Professor Brunson conducts fieldwork in China annually in order to investigate past human-animal interactions in East Asia. She collaborates…
Ancient DNA (aDNA) reveals that animal domestication was a complex process in which there was frequent feralization and interbreeding between wild and domestic stocks. Professor…
