BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3863-1ef061e2c3d81d5be2578eccdf4114cf@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20261003T110315Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221104T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221104T173000 SUMMARY:Collecting the Ancestors: skeletons and mummies and their history in rec onstructing health and medical practices in the pre-Hispanic Andes DESCRIPTION:\nCollecting the Ancestors: skeletons and mummies and their history in reconstructing health and medical practices in the pre-Hispan ic Andes\n\nSpeaker : John Verano\, \;Professor of Anthropology\, Tu lane University\n\nBeginning in the nineteenth century\, Peruvian\, Euro pean and North American explorers and archaeologists collected human rem ains from burial caves in the highlands and cemeteries on the desert coa st of the Andes. In Peru\, collectors found skulls showing evidence of t repanation (skull surgery) in pre-Hispanic burial houses and caves. Thes e medical practices were brought to world-wide attention by archaeologis ts like Julio Tello\, a descendent of those medical ancestors in the cen tral highlands\, who devoted the rest of his life to excavating archaeol ogical sites and building museum collections of ancestral mummies and sk ulls. This talk will look at how the study of human remains played an im portant role in documenting health conditions and medical practices in t he pre-Hispanic Andes\, and how these studies continue to flourish today through the work of a new generation of young bioarchaeologists.\n\n Th is keynote event \; is supported by the Humanities in the World Init iatives Faculty Invites program\n\nCo- sponsors: \;History Departmen t\, Latin American Studies\, Committee for Early Modern Studies\n\nFor m ore details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/collecting_the_ancestors_sk eletons_and_mummies_and_their_history_in_reconstructing_health_and_medic al_practices_in_the_pre-hispanic_andes/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Collecting the Ancestors: skeletons and mummies and their history in reconstructing hea lth and medical practices in the pre-Hispanic Andes

Speaker : John Verano, Professor of Anthropology, Tulane University

Beginni ng in the nineteenth century, Peruvian, European and North American expl orers and archaeologists collected human remains from burial caves in th e highlands and cemeteries on the desert coast of the Andes. In Peru, co llectors found skulls showing evidence of trepanation (skull surgery) in pre-Hispanic burial houses and caves. These medical practices were brou ght to world-wide attention by archaeologists like Julio Tello, a descen dent of those medical ancestors in the central highlands, who devoted th e rest of his life to excavating archaeological sites and building museu m collections of ancestral mummies and skulls. This talk will look at ho w the study of human remains played an important role in documenting hea lth conditions and medical practices in the pre-Hispanic Andes, and how these studies continue to flourish today through the work of a new gener ation of young bioarchaeologists.


Co- sponsors: History Department, Latin Am erican Studies, Committee for Early Modern Studies

For more detail s: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/ collecting_the_ancestors_skeletons_and_mummies_and_their_history_in_reco nstructing_health_and_medical_practices_in_the_pre-hispanic_andes/ LOCATION:Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR