What I wrote in April for @Forbes and @Mental_Floss

In April, I wrote the following stories for Forbes and mental_floss (excluding my Bones reviews, which have their own posts here).

• 4 April - Mass Grave from War of 1812 Gives Archaeologists First Evidence of Buckshot Injuries.  This is a cool re-enactment (experimental forensics, I guess) of injuries from this war found on skeletons in a mass grave in Canada. The article included the term "proxy buttocks" so you know you want to click through.

• 9 April - Why You Can't Stow a Skull in the Overhead Bin.  News of a German professor being detained in Italy after buying a human skull prompted me to write about why that is a bad idea.

• 15 April - What Media Stories Got Wrong about the Death of These Shackled Skeletons. tl;dr - the date. Click through to find out how the AFP screwed up their understanding of BC dates.

• 22 April - Roman Villa Mosaics Inspired These Gorgeous Archaeological Rugs.  That dude who found a Roman villa in his backyard? Yeah, he's an internationally acclaimed rug designer. Sooooo prettttty. 

• 26 April - Just How Old Is C-Section Birth?  I revised a post I wrote a while back for mental_floss, particularly in light of the news that the first direct evidence of C-section was found in an 18th century Hungarian mummy.

Coming up in May... more Bones reviews, pathological case studies, and a post on interesting ancient recipes, to name a few.