This 3D Reconstruction of Coleoptera was captured by the Computer Operated Photogrammetric Imaging System (COPIS), a project to design and prototype a modular, multi-view imaging system for museum collections.
Excavation of the Mazinga 1 field site. Focus moves from Ian Nkosi (Mzimba community) to Hannah Keller (PhD student at Yale University), cuts to Davie Mwandira (Mzimba community) with University of Malawi students in background, then to Bacara Spruit (PhD student at University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa), then to Babaloa Jacobs (recent graduate from University of Ibadan, Nigeria). Videography: Jessica Thompson
Peabody curator Jessica Thompson's recent study describes the discovery of the oldest known instance of human cremation