| Format: |
Oversized Softcover Book with French Fold Cover Flaps |
| Edition: |
FIRST PRINTING
Cover Price: $24.95 |
| Publisher: |
Firefly Book |
| Copyright Date: |
2003 |
| # of Pages: |
192 |
| Book Size: |
7" x 10" |
| ISBN: |
1552976599 / 9781552976593 |
| Synopsis: |
Human remains tell us much about how our ancestors lived and died. In Written in Bones, significant discoveries are carefully brought together and analyzed. Readers learn how experts use modern scientific techniques to piece together the stories behind the bones. The data is used to create a picture of cultures and ritual beliefs.
There are such astonishing discoveries as:
- Han Dynasty aristocrat preserved in an unknown red liquid
- Bog bodies in Europe
The riddle of Tomb KV55 - where a male body was found inside a female coffin
- World's oldest dwarf
- The headless men and giant wolves of the Mesolithic cemetery in Siberia
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| Item Defects: |
Covers have some small edge dings/rubs; pages have light age-tanning |
| Genre: |
Reference Books / Archeology / Forensic Science |
