An anthropologist and researcher, Danielle Kurin, PhD has led and participated in numerous projects in the Andes as a bioarchaeologist. In this role, Danielle Kurin oversees excavations and analyses of human remains found at various sites in Peru and Bolivia. Among those remains are mummies. A mummy is the body…

The recipient of numerous research grants and fellowships including prestigious Fulbrights, Danielle Kurin, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, specializing in the analysis of human bones. She has concentrated her work on the examination of human remains in the pre-historic Andes, but has also…

Using cutting-edge technology and techniques, Dr. Danielle Kurin makes new discoveries about the ancient civilizations of Latin America. In addition to her own research, Dr. Danielle Kurin oversees the Phillip Lee Walker Bioarchaeology and Biogeochemistry Lab at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB). The mission of the Phillip…

You Don’t Have a Leg to Stand On:A Case Study of Femo-tibial Fusion from a Cave in the Andahuaylas Province, Peru

A Bioarchaeological Assessment of Cranial Modification and Health in Ancient Highland Peru

Dr. Danielle Kurin’s research in bio-archaeological anthropology concentrates on the study of ancient South America, mainly in the Andes, and for the period from about 600 AD to the present. …

Dr. Danielle Kurin’s extensive research and experience in anthropological studies have resulted in the publication of academic journal articles, chapters in scholarly volumes and a book, The bioarchaeology of societal collapse and reorganization in ancient Peru. as well as university appointments, fellowships and research grants. Dr. …

Pre-Inca to Inca Demographic Shifts

UCSB bioarchaeologist Danielle Kurin studies trepanation — a practice of drilling holes in the cranium that dates back thousands of years Cranial surgery is tricky business, even under 21st-century conditions (think aseptic environment, specialized surgical instruments and copious amounts of pain medication both during and afterward). However, evidence shows that healers…