Showing posts with label skeletons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label skeletons. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Twins immemorial

›
Behold the earliest known example of twins in the archaeological record, dating back almost 8,000 years to the Neolithic Era. Sad to say, ...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

His Majesty's meals

›
Discovery of the remains of Britain’s last Plantagenet king, Richard III , in 2012 has allowed the commission of a facial reconstruction ...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Rotating ribs

›
Back in the 1950s, stilyagi (hipsters) in the Soviet Union went to great lengths to bootleg jazz and rock 'n' roll music. It was ...
Sunday, August 10, 2014

Ben's bones

›
The title of this post does not refer to the bones of American statesman Benjamin Franklin ( he died and was buried in Philadelphia ), bu...
Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Bawdy bones

›
Local author Kicki Karlén was exploring the Kläckeberga church in southern Sweden when she was outraged at the site of several Ikea bags...
Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Dig Down

›
The earliest and youngest example of an individual with Down syndrome in the archaeological record has been studied and described by Fren...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Duckworth

›
When I researched my book Skulls and Skeletons , I managed to miss a collection of more than 18,000 human remains. The Duckworth Laborator...
Sunday, March 30, 2014

Ancient acromegaly

›
About 3,800 years ago, members of a hunter-gatherer culture known as the Windmiller buried one of their own near what is now Elk Grove, C...
Friday, March 28, 2014

Beads adorning bones

›
In 2004, Siberian archaeologists uncovered the remains of a 25-year-old woman in a remote burial mound in the Altai Mountains. She had die...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Riddled remains

›
Michaela Binder, a doctoral student at Durham University in the U.K., has made a momentous discovery at the Amara West site in northern S...
Thursday, March 13, 2014

Fra femurs

›
This was the sight that appeared to Mandy Ewington as she was hiking in Monknash, South Wales, U.K. She sent a photograph to coastal archa...
Friday, February 21, 2014

Vodka visage

›
These days, facial reconstruction can be done digitally . But forensic artist Nigel Cockerton used the tried-and-true method of applying ...
Sunday, February 9, 2014

Skeptical about skulls

›
Make of this what you will. The Paracas skulls are a group of more than 300 elongated skulls discovered by Peruvian archaeologist Julio T...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Bones and scones

›
Not long after bones exhumed from a parking lot in Leicester, England, were confirmed to be those of King Richard II, the lost remains o...
Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Stonehenge man

›
One of the highlights of the new visitor center built on the site of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England, is the face reproduced from a ske...
Thursday, December 12, 2013

Digitized diseases

›
Diseases which we thought we had conquered are rearing their ugly heads. This includes polio , which is currently spreading in Syria . Mar...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

Sponsor a skull

›
My favorite Mütter Museum , part of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania, U.S., has launched a fundraising campaign....
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Dark Age deformation

›
The other morning, my friend Sue showed me a photograph of a skull with cranial deformation in a book she was reading. She asked me which...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Royal rondels

›
My friend Sue picked up on something I left out of my post about identifying the skull first believed to be that of King Henry IV of Franc...
Thursday, October 3, 2013

Crossrail crossbones

›
Actually it's just the skulls and not the crossbones which have come tumbling out of a Crossrail tunnel being excavated near Liverpool...