Kim Crawford (MA, Physical) is currently a second year Master’s student, focusing on bioarchaeology.  This semester she will finish her core classes and is also a teaching assistant for two discussion sections for Anth-104.  Over the summer, she collaborated with Valerie Solomon on a small biodistance project involving the Barbados slave collection.  This project will be presented as a poster at the 2006 American Association of Physical Anthropology meetings.  Kim has also begun preliminary work on her thesis project which involves experimental taphonomy to determine possible causes for the burning patterns seen on the remains of two individuals from an archaeological project headed by Dr. Andrew Balkansky at Tayata, Oaxaca.  Experiments are expected to commence soon…