Sentences with phrase «century human skulls»

It is that of an infant estimated to be between 40 and 42 weeks of age and was purchased as part of a rare collection of 19th century human skulls and skeletons from Leiden that originated from the Delft pathology collection.

Not exact matches

To support these claims, Gould presented the case of Samuel George Morton, a 19th - century American physician and scientist famous for his measurements of human skulls, particularly their cranial capacity (the skeletal equivalent of brain size).

Dr. Charlier argues that human remains in museums and scientific institutions can be divided into four categories, «ethnographical elements» such as hair samples with no certain identification; anatomical remains such as whole skeletons or skulls; archaeological remains; and more modern collections of skulls, used in now discredited studies in the early 20th century.

Bronte, like so many other 19th century intellectuals, was fascinated by phrenology, which explained human personality traits by charting the bumps on the skull.

S.J. Gould, in «The Mismeasure of Man», reviewed a 19th century study by Morton of 600 skulls which ranged from 950 to 1870 cc (and 25 % of this sample was of small - statured Peruvians, so the figure of 950 cc is, if anything, lower than it might be for 600 randomly selected humans).

In addition to skulls and bones, you also can see several tombs centuries old, as well as long human hairs, ceramic fragments and others remains scattered on the desert surface.

Dead Images explores the contentious legacy of collections of human skulls, assembled during the 19th and early 20th centuries and still held in public institutions in Europe.