When researchers are looking for skeleton studying, Borrini will find out whether the research will somehow change them. “If there is destructive sampling, we must guarantee that the destruction will be minimal and that there will be enough material [left] For a further study, “he says.” Otherwise we don’t approve of the study. “
If only previous generations of archaeologists took a similar approach. Harrison told me the story of the discovery of the “medieval man”, “who was found in the capital, in 1981, and was still untouched, and he was still intact, and his organs were present and still had and still had it and still had a body.
Archaeologists will normally dig up such ancient copies with care, using tools made of natural substances like a stone or brick, says Harrison. It’s not true for St Beis. “His coffin is open with an angular grinder,” says Harrison. Man’s body has been removed and “stuck in a truck, where he undergoed standard modern forensic postmarttem, adds.
“His clump would open, his organs [removed and] weighed, [and] The top of his head would be cut off, “says Harrison. The samples of man’s organs” were held in [the pathologist’s] Garage 40 years. “
If St Persi was discovered today, the story would be completely different. I would have been recognized by the coffin as a precious ancient artifact that should be paid to attention, and man’s remains would be scanned and replaced in the least destructive way, Harrison says.
Even Lindow man, who discovered only three years later in nearby Manchester, got better treatment. His remains were found in the peat, and he thinks he died more than 2,000 years ago. Unlike the poor men of the Holy Bee, he passed a careful scientific investigation, and his remains took place in the British Museum. Harrison remembers to see the exhibition when he was 10 years old.
Harrison says he dreams of minimally destructive DNA technologies-tools that could help us understand the lives of long dead people without damaging their remains. I look forward to covering them in the future. (Meanwhile, I personally dream of traveling to us respect and carefully visiting Herculaneum.)
