faces from the past by 1kiki

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faces from the past

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Sunday, March 26, 2017 9:18 PM

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

forensic reconstructions of

Richard III

Robert the Bruce

Tutankhamen

And 'Context 958'

A new project in Cambridge called “After the Plague” aims to understand the plight of the common man and woman in and around the time the Black Death hit England in 1348.

The four-year project’s first big unveil is a man known now as “Context 958” – who was buried face-down in the Hospital of St. John the Evangelist churchyard in the 13th century.

The Cambridge team has started to reconstruct what his life may have been like, based on forensic clues that went with him to his grave some 800 years ago.

“Most historical records are about well-off people and especially their financial and legal transactions – the less money and property you had, the less likely anybody was to ever write down anything about you,” said John Robb, a Cambridge archaeologist who is the principal investigator on the Plague project. “So skeletons like this are really our change to learn about how the ordinary poor lived.”

Context 958, buried among roughly 400 of his contemporaries, has a tale to tell, deep within what’s left of his bones. Using isotopes, DNA, and other chemical analysis, the milestones start to fall into place.

He was a man who had died in his 40s. His joints showed a hard, working-class life – but the bones were also robust, meaning he had been a healthy and active person in his prime, the scientists describe. His diet was relatively rich in protein from meat or fish, meaning his job may have allowed him access to foods of the kind.

But there were dark threads to his life’s narrative. His tooth enamel stopped growing on two occasions when he was a boy, meaning he probable had suffered serious illness or famine from a young age. A serious head wound from blunt force trauma on the back of his skull had healed before he died, but may have caused severe pain and problems.

The plot where he had been buried, face down, also shows a bit about his end. He was likely an inmate of the Hospital of St. John, a charitable institution in Cambridge which cared for a dozen people at a time who were indigent from illness, age, or poverty.

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Sunday, March 26, 2017 10:42 PM

DREAMTROVE

Nice. If you look at King Tut he looks black, which I suspect he was. Of course that one was easy, since there's a statue of him right there.

Richard III needs work. He looks like a mannequin. He needs some texture to his face like Context 958.

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Sunday, March 26, 2017 11:17 PM

6STRINGJOKER

King Tut was white. And he had white hair.

He gave his life for tourism.

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Monday, March 27, 2017 1:20 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Cool.

Yanno, this is the kind of stuff that diverts me from what I'm supposed to be doing!

King Tut ... not only did he have a club foot, he had wide, womanly hips and narrow shoulders. I'm sure there have been detailed studies about what was WRONG with that guy ... he seems to have had a number of medical conditions.

Studies of gladiators ... seem to indicate that not only did they have really sturdy bones, they were FAT. That layer of fat would help prevent fatal injuries, but bleed quite dramatically.

Studies of early American colonials indicate that MOST people worked incredibly hard, morning till night, from the age of about 5, during the non-winter months.

Kennewick man.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/kennewick-man-finally-freed-shar
e-his-secrets-180952462/

Otzi the Iceman.
http://www.iceman.it/en/the-iceman/

And various "average" people who were buried and later found ... all fascinating glimpses of how life was lived back then!

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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
THUGR IS A DEEP-STATE TROLL

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