Summary

Dr. Clark Spencer Larsen of Ohio State joins the show to discuss his history in the field, bioarchaeology, and how we can use biological anthropology to understand human health in the past. 

Recommendations

• Dr. Larsen’s faculty page
• Dr. Larsen’s Google Scholar profile
• Clark Spencer Larsen Wikipedia page
• CS Larsen. (2023). The past 12,000 years of behavior, adaptation, population and evolution shaped who we are today PNAS.
• CS Larsen & F Crespo. (2022). Paleosyndemics: A bioarchaeological and biosocial approach to study infectious diseases in the past. Centaurus article [PDF]
• CS Larsen. (2015). Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton. Cambridge University Press.
• CS Larsen. (2018). Essentials of Biological Anthropology. W. W. Norton & Company.
• CS Larsen. (2019). Our Origins: Discovering Biological Anthropology. W. W. Norton & Company.
• Gunsmoke (TV series)