Return of the Juengst

Okay so... according to this blog, I apparently never returned from Bolivia last summer. That is false. My bad.

so let's pretend that you all are updated on the past 9 months of my life (brief overview: move into 106a high st, anatomy class, research for masters-esque paper, writing paper, fox boiling, classes on disease, turn 25, surviving summer heat) and dive right back in to this summers adventures!

I'm returning to Copacabana, Bolivia this summer, to work with the skeletal collections I began to explore last summer. Excitingly, this will mark the start of official collection of dissertation data (eek!) so it won't ALL be fun and games. Although I do plan to do that too, because as my mailman told me "Play first, research second". Its probably a good life lesson.

[For those who are interested, I'll be looking through about 250-400 skeletons in varying states of preservation to see changes in health with increasing social complexity. Most of these individuals date to 3000-2000 years ago, around the time of the first regional religious traditions and social hierarchies in the Lake Titicaca basin]

Boring part over. Anyway, I leave friday and will hopefully faithfully update this blog at least once a week all summer (gone until August 13).

Now let us go into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, Adventure!