I'm a bioarchaeologist now!

"What is a bioarchaeologist? What does he or she do? Meet Tiffiny, a kid like you and me, who grew up and became a bioarchaeologist! Tiffiny's father emigrated from China to the United States before she was born. She grew up exploring museums and the outdoors with her father, and discovered her pass...

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Main Author: Tung, Tiffiny A. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : WS Education, an imprint of World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., [2022]
Series:Who me? ; 3.
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Summary:"What is a bioarchaeologist? What does he or she do? Meet Tiffiny, a kid like you and me, who grew up and became a bioarchaeologist! Tiffiny's father emigrated from China to the United States before she was born. She grew up exploring museums and the outdoors with her father, and discovered her passion for understanding different peoples and cultures. Learn about how she uses archaeology and biology to understand how people in the past lived and why they moved from one part of the Earth to another. The Who Me? series features inspirational biographies of scientists who young readers will be able to identify with as people like themselves. Written by the scientists themselves and co-authors from Vanderbilt University, the books are designed to help young readers understand that scientists are regular people like themselves who are excited about learning and discovering new things and who decided to work hard in school in order to create for themselves the opportunity to become scientists. As they learn the stories of these scientists, readers will also learn some basic science ideas, that are well-explained and easily understood, and be introduced to the cutting-edge science these scientists are working on today."--Back cover.
Physical Description:48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9811250863
9789811250866
Author Notes:Tiffiny Tung is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in Social and Natural Sciences, Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University. She examines mummies and skeletons from archaeology sites to tell science-based stories about the lives of people that lived long ago. She was a Fulbright Fellow, and her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation. She has been awarded multiple teaching awards at Vanderbilt University. She is the director of the Bioarchaeology Stable Isotope Research Lab at Vanderbilt, and she invites students to travel with her to Peru to excavate and do skeletal analysis. She is the author of Violence, Ritual, and the Wan Empire: A Social Bioarchaeology of Imperialism in the Ancient Andes (2012).