If you go to this article from the Washington Examiner, you’ll see why yet again the brilliance and erudition of university professors leaves me speechless. Not a Leicester University archaeologist this time, but a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Managing Faculty Director for the Center for Civil Rights and Racial Justice in… Continue reading A university professor who claims it’s impossible differentiate between adult male or female skeletons….!
Tag: anthropology
Richard III and the Ancient Egyptian cheese….!
In this intriguing list of twenty , the discovery of Richard III’s remains comes in at number two! He was pipped at the post by an extremely old cheese from Egypt. Eh? Old cheese? Sorry, but can that possibly be more important than Richard? It doesn’t even have King Tut’s fingerprints or teethmarks! 😦 Oh… Continue reading Richard III and the Ancient Egyptian cheese….!
An interesting discussion about medieval bones, including Richard’s….
Elena Haymond is an anthropology instructor at Riverland Community College, and teeth are her special area of research within the field of osteoarchaeology. But in this talk she speaks of Richard’s remains in general, and how they have disproved Shakespeare’s portrait of him. Bare bone details; Study of bones enriches the understanding of people, cultures
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