This is the second of an eight-part series, airing every Friday. Silvio was a participant in a bioarchaeology training program earlier this summer. This was funded by a US National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduate (NSF-REU) grant.

In this installment of the podcast, Silvio Ernesto Mirabal Torres (College of Southern Nevada) shares details about his time doing osteological data collection and analysis. His specific research involved various sex estimation methods using the distal humerus as the focal skeletal trait, and figuring out whether bones had been cremated as part of burial rites. We also talk about his experiences of first moving to the US from his home country of Cuba, and his future dreams of becoming a bioarchaeologist and/or forensic anthropologist.

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