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Sandra Garvie-Lok

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Sandra Garvie-Lok is an osteologist and associate professor of Anthropology at the University of Alberta. Born in Winnipeg, Canada, she studied at the University of Winnipeg and the University of Calgary. Her research studies life in the past by examining human skeletons, using chemical analysis and other techniques to reconstruct diet, illness and other aspects of daily life. She does most of her research in Greece. Sandra Garvie-Lok lives in Edmonton, Canada.

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I Travelled to Greece and Saw a Vampire

(5) Comments | Posted October 31, 2012 | 12:23 PM

Most people go to Greece for beaches, ouzo and temples gleaming in the Mediterranean sun. I went for a vampire. But what I found there led me beyond pop culture images of vampires to a darker part of the human imagination.

In the midst of searching for ancient ruins, an...

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