{"id":34711,"date":"2021-11-27T10:48:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T16:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=34711"},"modified":"2021-11-27T10:48:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T16:48:45","slug":"word-of-the-day-749","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/11\/27\/word-of-the-day-749\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Osteobiography<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So, what is an osteobiography? It\u2019s exactly what you\u2019re probably thinking. An osteobiography is someone\u2019s personal life history as told by their skeleton. Think of a skeleton as a book written in a language osteoarchaeologists can understand (and translate). We\u2019re familiar with every bump, groove, hole, and rough spot there is, from the top of our heads to the tips of our toes. Our skeletons are a blank slate that\u2019s shaped by life experiences.<em> [&#8220;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/bonesstonesandbooks.com\/2017\/05\/27\/what-is-an-osteobiography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What is an osteobiography?<\/a><em>&#8221; Stephanie Halmhofer, <\/em><strong>Bone, Stones, and Books<\/strong><em>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>New enough to not appear in dictionaries, but it seems quite sensible. Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.archaeology.org\/issues\/446-2111\/digs\/10066-digs-england-roman-slaves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Identifying the Unidentified<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Jarrett A. Lobell, <strong><em>Archaeology<\/em><\/strong> (November\/December 2021):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe suggestion of slavery, punishment, or something nefarious immediately leapt to mind,\u201d says Chinnock. Despite the fetters\u2019 dramatic appearance, they do not definitively prove that the man was enslaved. This type of shackle has rarely been found anywhere in the Roman world, and never in Roman Britain. When Chinnock examined the skeleton to reconstruct the man\u2019s life based on his bones, creating what scholars call an osteobiography, he found some lesions on his ankles and tibias from infections or trauma, but nothing that conclusively linked them to the fetters. He also found a bony spur on the man\u2019s left femur. \u201cThe spur is of a type that can occur from a traumatic injury or from the repetitive activities of an active lifestyle, hard labor, or even heavy contact sports,\u201d says Chinnock. \u201cNothing screams that this person was enslaved.\u201d Furthermore, the man was buried near a thriving Roman town, and there would have been both slaves and laborers in the surrounding fields, farms, and villages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Osteobiography: So, what is an osteobiography? It\u2019s exactly what you\u2019re probably thinking. An osteobiography is someone\u2019s personal life history as told by their skeleton. Think of a skeleton as a book written in a language osteoarchaeologists can understand (and translate). We\u2019re familiar with every bump, groove, hole, and rough spot \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/11\/27\/word-of-the-day-749\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34712,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34711\/revisions\/34712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}