EXCERPT: It is not known for what crime the man was being punished, but the researchers say it could have been merely for looking different to the rest of society as he had protruding teeth and was 4.3 inches shorter than average.
Showing posts with label Anthropology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anthropology. Show all posts
29 September 2019
MEDIEVAL WHEEL OF TORTURE VICTIM SKELETON FOUND IN MILAN
DAILY MAIL UK : MEDIEVAL WHEEL OF TORTURE VICTIM SKELETON FOUND by Joe Pinkstone
03 October 2015
ANTHROPOLOGY, ARCHEOLOGY, BURIALS, MUMMIES
Anthropology is one subject I love. I love learning how the human developed culture, how cultures spread, and DNA is enhancing our understanding of human migration, ethnicity, and race..
I love knowing this life I lead is so much of the times. Can I even really imagine the world of my great grandparents? The ancient Greeks? The life of a tribe in the Amazon? Well, could they in their lives imagining air travel or rock and roll?
With anthropology we can try on what it was to live in another time and place, since we cannot yet actually TIME TRAVEL for a look-see. But besides living there is dying.
Along with Anthropology, there is Archeology (digging evidence up and applying scientific methods and analysis to it), the two often going hand in hand. One of the things that the Anthropologists and Archeologists look at is BURIALS.
Burials tell us so much about the person, the people. The posture they are buried in, if they have a shroud, if there are tools or jewelry buried with them, or perhaps their pet cat... if they were laid into the earth, had stones put on top of them, had a carved wood casket, were embalmed, had ordinary clothing on or were naked, and what direction they - and others in that graveyard - were facing; all of this telling.
One time I asked an Archeology professor, if so many millions of people had died on this earth in the past, why were there not MORE burials, more evidence of their lives. He said most people were not buried. They were cremated, or left out for the vultures, or otherwise exposed. Also many burials are now deep under the earth or the graves were robbed. So when a burial is found and explored it can be a wealth of information.
Some of the more exciting burials I've learned about are in museums. I saw an exhibit at the Getty in Malibu, California that had the painted cases that some ancient Greeks had been buried in, though living in Egypt. Each had a painting of the person's face, as to be remembered in life. This was a time and place burial, influenced by both Greek and Egyptian notions.
Then there are the burials found in Hungary in which the people inside beautifully painted caskets, many who had died of TB, were found to be naturally preserved mummies. Scientists of medicine are studying TB through these mummies.
Take a look at the stack of beautiful coffins at this link VAC HUNGARY - NATURAL MUMMIES - NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
Reading around these Hungarian mummies, I've learned that they are known people, for whom there are records, and descendants alive.
I don't know about you, but I personally do not think I would want to see any of my dead relatives dug up so I could see what they look like, but did you know that a son of the Big Bopper, the 1950's rock and roller who died in a plane crash, did just that, before having him cremated?
Can you tell that it's that time of year... that Halloween and All Souls Day are not so far away?
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I love knowing this life I lead is so much of the times. Can I even really imagine the world of my great grandparents? The ancient Greeks? The life of a tribe in the Amazon? Well, could they in their lives imagining air travel or rock and roll?
With anthropology we can try on what it was to live in another time and place, since we cannot yet actually TIME TRAVEL for a look-see. But besides living there is dying.
Along with Anthropology, there is Archeology (digging evidence up and applying scientific methods and analysis to it), the two often going hand in hand. One of the things that the Anthropologists and Archeologists look at is BURIALS.
Burials tell us so much about the person, the people. The posture they are buried in, if they have a shroud, if there are tools or jewelry buried with them, or perhaps their pet cat... if they were laid into the earth, had stones put on top of them, had a carved wood casket, were embalmed, had ordinary clothing on or were naked, and what direction they - and others in that graveyard - were facing; all of this telling.
One time I asked an Archeology professor, if so many millions of people had died on this earth in the past, why were there not MORE burials, more evidence of their lives. He said most people were not buried. They were cremated, or left out for the vultures, or otherwise exposed. Also many burials are now deep under the earth or the graves were robbed. So when a burial is found and explored it can be a wealth of information.
Some of the more exciting burials I've learned about are in museums. I saw an exhibit at the Getty in Malibu, California that had the painted cases that some ancient Greeks had been buried in, though living in Egypt. Each had a painting of the person's face, as to be remembered in life. This was a time and place burial, influenced by both Greek and Egyptian notions.
Then there are the burials found in Hungary in which the people inside beautifully painted caskets, many who had died of TB, were found to be naturally preserved mummies. Scientists of medicine are studying TB through these mummies.
Take a look at the stack of beautiful coffins at this link VAC HUNGARY - NATURAL MUMMIES - NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
Reading around these Hungarian mummies, I've learned that they are known people, for whom there are records, and descendants alive.
I don't know about you, but I personally do not think I would want to see any of my dead relatives dug up so I could see what they look like, but did you know that a son of the Big Bopper, the 1950's rock and roller who died in a plane crash, did just that, before having him cremated?
Can you tell that it's that time of year... that Halloween and All Souls Day are not so far away?
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24 May 2014
DNA AND INCEST - WILL FAMILY SECRETS BE DISCOVERED IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM ?
DNA is the most fascinating subject to me and I read articles that mention it in every category from True Crime, Animal Husbandry, and of course, Genealogy and Family History.
One night I decided to research DNA and incest. Some very interesting websites and news came up and basically, there are many companies offering the test. More often than an individual wishing to discover if they are a product of incest, a child is hospitalized and doctors order a DNA test to help diagnose the child who has a rare or strange disease, and up it comes that the child has double or missing DNA proving it is the product of incest! incest can increase the chances of certain diseases. (At the same time if a community that is free of certain illness, say a mental illness, intermarries, such as in the Amish, that community will stay free of that illness. In some communities in which there were cousin marriages and close village marriages over time, such as is the case with many Eastern European Jewish people, certain diseases are amplified. In order to no longer have those diseases some Jewish communities are actively testing for genetic diseases and avoiding marriages with others who carry it!)
In a college anthropology class I once learned that the subject of incest came under a theory of TABOO. At the time scientists didn't think that there was much else wrong with incest but that so many cultures around the world made it taboo for their own reasons. After all "primitive" societies were not savvy about DNA or genetics and attributed a lot of things to forces in nature such as Spirits or Gods. Whole social structures were developed to avoid intermarriage with brothers and sisters, first cousins, parents, aunts and uncles, though we know that brother-sister marriage was practiced to keep blood lines (and inheritances) "true" in other cultures. Such was the case with Cleopatra of ancient Egypt, for instance. I personally have met people living today whose parents were first cousins in Italy. Missing or duplicate Genes did result in one of the sisters in such a family being developmentally retarded.
There are many articles on the Internet that ask the question of what a doctor should do if while treating a patient he or she discovers they are the product of incest. What is the ethical and moral thing to do in 2014, this culture? What about the people who DO NOT KNOW THEY ARE CLOSELY RELATED when they met and have children, such is the case with children born of sperm donations or who were adopted. Makes you think...
Well, the scientists are also saying that SMELL has a lot to do with who we pick as a sexual partner, and well, we don't feel attracted to people who smell too much like us! There are also those who say that taking the contraception, "The Pill." cannot smell so well.
One night I decided to research DNA and incest. Some very interesting websites and news came up and basically, there are many companies offering the test. More often than an individual wishing to discover if they are a product of incest, a child is hospitalized and doctors order a DNA test to help diagnose the child who has a rare or strange disease, and up it comes that the child has double or missing DNA proving it is the product of incest! incest can increase the chances of certain diseases. (At the same time if a community that is free of certain illness, say a mental illness, intermarries, such as in the Amish, that community will stay free of that illness. In some communities in which there were cousin marriages and close village marriages over time, such as is the case with many Eastern European Jewish people, certain diseases are amplified. In order to no longer have those diseases some Jewish communities are actively testing for genetic diseases and avoiding marriages with others who carry it!)
In a college anthropology class I once learned that the subject of incest came under a theory of TABOO. At the time scientists didn't think that there was much else wrong with incest but that so many cultures around the world made it taboo for their own reasons. After all "primitive" societies were not savvy about DNA or genetics and attributed a lot of things to forces in nature such as Spirits or Gods. Whole social structures were developed to avoid intermarriage with brothers and sisters, first cousins, parents, aunts and uncles, though we know that brother-sister marriage was practiced to keep blood lines (and inheritances) "true" in other cultures. Such was the case with Cleopatra of ancient Egypt, for instance. I personally have met people living today whose parents were first cousins in Italy. Missing or duplicate Genes did result in one of the sisters in such a family being developmentally retarded.
There are many articles on the Internet that ask the question of what a doctor should do if while treating a patient he or she discovers they are the product of incest. What is the ethical and moral thing to do in 2014, this culture? What about the people who DO NOT KNOW THEY ARE CLOSELY RELATED when they met and have children, such is the case with children born of sperm donations or who were adopted. Makes you think...
Well, the scientists are also saying that SMELL has a lot to do with who we pick as a sexual partner, and well, we don't feel attracted to people who smell too much like us! There are also those who say that taking the contraception, "The Pill." cannot smell so well.
31 December 2013
WHAT DOES ARCHEOLOGY and SCIENCE (DNA) HAVE TO DO WITH FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH AND WRITING?
If you haven't guessed by some of my postings on this GENEALOGY and FAMILY HISTORY WRITING SITE, I have an intense interest in DNA, DNA Science and Genealogy, Human History, archeology, anthropology, cultural studies, and spirituality - reincarnation; the WHO WHAT WHERE WHY AND WHEN of writing about human beings.
Genealogy research can take us only so far because it relies on records - usually written records and truly, many people are only able to go back three to five generations without loosing the trail. Once in a while I meet someone who, because they are related to royalty or aristocracy (or maybe a Jewish rabbi who was famous) has found more convincing evidence of connections further back. Once in a while I meet someone who came to understand themselves through hypnotic regression be because they found themselves in a past life.)
DNA can help us understand more about how the people who passed on their genetics to us traveled the world and settled, and of course DNA tests are allowing us to learn more about our ethnicity as well. Our notions of who we are have a lot to do with ethnicity.
DNA tests can help us connect with other people who may be related to us. (Everyone on earth is related in some way, but that's a very big concept to understand.)
Genealogy research can take us only so far because it relies on records - usually written records and truly, many people are only able to go back three to five generations without loosing the trail. Once in a while I meet someone who, because they are related to royalty or aristocracy (or maybe a Jewish rabbi who was famous) has found more convincing evidence of connections further back. Once in a while I meet someone who came to understand themselves through hypnotic regression be because they found themselves in a past life.)
DNA can help us understand more about how the people who passed on their genetics to us traveled the world and settled, and of course DNA tests are allowing us to learn more about our ethnicity as well. Our notions of who we are have a lot to do with ethnicity.
DNA tests can help us connect with other people who may be related to us. (Everyone on earth is related in some way, but that's a very big concept to understand.)
03 November 2012
ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHIN : CAVE OF NATIVE AMERICAN WOMAN WHO LIVED ALONE FOR 18 YEARS ON SAN NICHOLAS ISLAND
LA TIMES - ARTICLE BY STEVE CHAWKINS "CAVE OF POPULAR HEROINE FOUND AT LAST?
"By 1835, the few Nicoleños left were struggling. Whether motivated by compassion or a need to increase the ranks of mission laborers, Franciscan fathers from the mainland sent a ship for them. All but one made the trip to the mainland aboard the Peor es Nada, loosely translated as "Better than nothing."
The holdout came to be known as the Lone Woman. According to legend, she jumped overboard and swam for shore when she frantically realized that her baby had been left behind. Less romanticized theories hold that she told the captain she'd show up with her child but a sudden storm forced him to shove off without her.
What's known is that a solitary woman lived in the sand and fog of San Nicolas for the next 18 years. On the mainland, her legend grew. A time or two, fishermen reported seeing a fleeting figure on the deserted island. In 1850, a padre at the Santa Barbara Mission commissioned a sea captain to find her."
I read the book as an adult and found it to be a fascinating read. The story of a woman alone for 18 years on an island who was rescued and died 7 weeks later has captured my imagination.
C 2012
"By 1835, the few Nicoleños left were struggling. Whether motivated by compassion or a need to increase the ranks of mission laborers, Franciscan fathers from the mainland sent a ship for them. All but one made the trip to the mainland aboard the Peor es Nada, loosely translated as "Better than nothing."
The holdout came to be known as the Lone Woman. According to legend, she jumped overboard and swam for shore when she frantically realized that her baby had been left behind. Less romanticized theories hold that she told the captain she'd show up with her child but a sudden storm forced him to shove off without her.
What's known is that a solitary woman lived in the sand and fog of San Nicolas for the next 18 years. On the mainland, her legend grew. A time or two, fishermen reported seeing a fleeting figure on the deserted island. In 1850, a padre at the Santa Barbara Mission commissioned a sea captain to find her."
I read the book as an adult and found it to be a fascinating read. The story of a woman alone for 18 years on an island who was rescued and died 7 weeks later has captured my imagination.
C 2012
08 January 2012
THE FATE OF THE NEANDERTHALS : A and E FILM : WE HAVE A LITTLE OF THEM IN US?
Just noshing the other night watching this film, which came out in 2006, and is probably still available for rental or at your public library. A and E's THE FATE OF THE NEANDERTHALS, narrated by Leonard Nimoy of Star Trek fame, is the kind of educational film I enjoy. Several important professors of anthropology and archeology speak, and here is the consensus:
Neanderthals had very difficult lives. They usually lived to about 40, but this was enough time for some of them to have grandchildren. The men were buried with grave goods like weapons and flowers, the women were never buried with anything. This reflects a lack of status, possibly even a belief that women did not have an afterlife and suggests women were not respected in life. It is also possible that women and children lived separate of men for long periods of time. There is evidence that Neanderthals lived in small groups, and there were probably never more than 100,000 living at any one time. Their range based on burials and other evidence includes Israel and Iran, the British isles, and sweep of Mediterranean Europe. Since they treated each other differently than they treated most animals, they probably had a sense of themselves as special and different, and they may have had a concept of religiousness or worshipped a deity.
They were alive when Homo Sapiens emerged and the two groups probably encountered each other and recognized each other as both different and as people. Physically they were very robust, men with the strength of about 3 times that of modern man.
Neanderthals had very difficult lives. They usually lived to about 40, but this was enough time for some of them to have grandchildren. The men were buried with grave goods like weapons and flowers, the women were never buried with anything. This reflects a lack of status, possibly even a belief that women did not have an afterlife and suggests women were not respected in life. It is also possible that women and children lived separate of men for long periods of time. There is evidence that Neanderthals lived in small groups, and there were probably never more than 100,000 living at any one time. Their range based on burials and other evidence includes Israel and Iran, the British isles, and sweep of Mediterranean Europe. Since they treated each other differently than they treated most animals, they probably had a sense of themselves as special and different, and they may have had a concept of religiousness or worshipped a deity.
They were alive when Homo Sapiens emerged and the two groups probably encountered each other and recognized each other as both different and as people. Physically they were very robust, men with the strength of about 3 times that of modern man.
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