Bones and Ochre: The Curious Afterlife of the Red Lady of Paviland

by Marianne Sommer

Marianne Sommer unravels a riveting tale about a set of ancient human bones and their curious afterlife as a scientific object.

When the ochre-stained bones were unearthed in a Welsh cave in 1823, they inspired unsettling questions regarding their origin. Their discoverer, William Buckland, declared the remains to be Post-Diluvian, possibly those of a taxman murdered by smugglers. Shortly thereafter he reinterpreted the bones as those of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674024990
• ISBN13: 9780674024991
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"