Beyond the Body Farm by Bill Bass

Author:Bill Bass [Bass, Bill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780061854392
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

I had met Richard three decades earlier, when he took my introductory anthropology course at the University of Kansas. Dick was a Kansas boy, born and bred; his father worked at a grain elevator in Halstead, a little prairie town about thirty miles northwest of Wichita. Dick was the oldest of three boys; he and his younger brother both attended college in Lawrence, and I taught both at one time or another. Dick got interested in anthropology and took a number of undergraduate courses; eventually he decided to get a Ph.D., and I ended up as his thesis advisor. Like me, Dick found bones more interesting than cultural rituals and customs; unlike me, he also loved statistics and data. During graduate school, Dick spent a summer with me in the plains of South Dakota excavating Arikara Indian graves that were about to be inundated by the rising waters of Lake Oahe. (For the story of how I became “Indian grave robber number one,” see Death‘s Acre.) In the course of that summer, Dick catalogued and measured thousands of Indian bones. He wrote his dissertation on cranial changes in the Arikara Indians between 1600 and 1830, and it was a superb piece of work. When I came to Tennessee in 1971 to head UT’s Anthropology Department, Dick—who was an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska at the time—was one of the two bright young faculty members I’d negotiated to bring with me.

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