Skulls and Skeletons: Human Bone Collections and Accumulations

ISBN-13: 9780786438884 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 271 str.

Christine Quigley

Opis

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.