Ever wondered what hippopotamus bone traces tell us about Renaissance teeth? Have a read!!

and gained astonishing new insights into the material world of Renaissance recipe cultures:
Which ingredients were used?
Which substances were altered?
What can be said about their effects on early modern bodies?

As a team of scientific archaeologists, chemists, conservators, curators, historians, lab technicians, photographers & material scientists, we have combined advanced imaging technologies & proteomics as non-invasive, interpretative tools to study Renaissance recipes

Just arrived!
👉🏼 the hardcopy catalogue of the #gnm exhibition Global Nuremberg, 1300-1600
Germanisches Nationalmuseum @stadtnuernberg.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @uomhistdept.bsky.social

Now on bsky, my recent #CurrentAnthropology journal article on Amazonian biocreativity & 17th-c featherworking in colonial Dutch Brazil
👉 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

@wennergrenorg.bsky.social @sapiens.org @chicagojournals.bsky.social @uomhistdept.bsky.social @survivalinternational.org