Bone Camp Holographic Sticker

Welcome to Bone Camp!! Every Anthropologist’s favorite summer camp complete with lots of daily activities and weekend field trips! (Okay and maybe even the occasional visit from the plague doctor!) Everyone gear up and get ready to get a bit dirty as we venture into the world of archaeology and osteology! Remember to follow your schedule! Breakfast is at 7:00am, bone quizzes at 8:30am, dinner is at 7:00pm, and Cow time is promptly at 8:00pm! A few reminders for all you campers! Don’t forget to put your laundry out to be cleaned,  most shops close early on weekends, and ALWAYS WATCH OUT FOR BEARS! 

The artist was lucky enough to complete a summer internship in Transylvania, Romania working with the Papdomb skeletal collection. While there, all of the students were split into two distinct groups: field and lab students. The students who worked in the field spent hours in the sun daily helping to recover skeletons from a collapsed medieval church from Patakfalva. Once recovered, these skeletons were washed and set aside. This is where the lab students (like the artist!) come in, laying out each and every one of the skeletons to analyze them and record any and all information needed about the individual, such as age at death, biological sex, and pathological details found on the skeleton. This sticker also shows the field house, the Hinto Panzio, that all the students stayed at complete with lots of small details from the “summer camp” and work that was done. On the left hand side, you can see a skeleton that represents the lab students taking one of the many osteology quizzes that they participated in. Further to the right, the field students gesture towards a trench that they dug to uncover the skeletons. (No, they did not actually use shovels!) Within the first week here, a Hungarian Flu swept through the ranks of students and took many people out for multiple days, the students referred to this as the plague and is represented by a crow wearing a plague doctors mask! Everyone’s favorite hunter, Marzipan the cat, is also shown carrying away “just another one of her kills.” You even can see a bear skeleton to the far right, a fun detail considering all the bear warnings that we received while in Romania! Keep looking and see what other details you might be able to see!