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Skulls and Skeletons
Human Bone Collections and Accumulations
Author Here
Hardbound
263 pages with complete index
Profusely Illustrated
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Date Published: September 15, 2001
Of the parts of the human body, the bones have a unique durability that lends itself
to collection. Provided a body has not been cremated, the skeletal remains can be
recovered even millions of years after death, cleaned of flesh and debris, studied
at length, and stored indefinitely without the maintenance that wet specimens require.
Motivations for collecting human skeletal material range from the practical
(in anthropology, medicine, forensics) to the ritualistic (phrenology, in the relics
of martyrs and saints). This book is an examination of those motivations and the
collections they have brought about-catacombs, ossuaries, mass graves, prehistoric
excavations, private collections, and institutions.
The book contains sections on procuring, handling, storing, transporting, cleaning,
and identifying skeletal remains. The repatriation of remains and legislation
covering the topic are also addressed.
This volume came from the collection of a discrete owner.
The book has been gently read, and the pages are clean and bright
with gentle light wear to it's cover.
Order by ITEM #BKS-251-08
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