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- Title
AN HISTORICAL NOTE AND PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE HUMAN SKELETAL REMAINS FROM SOUTHERN AFRICA STORED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.
- Authors
MORRIS, ALAN G.; SCHOLTZ, YVETTE
- Abstract
The actions of early travellers and scientists in Britain's vast colonial empire in Africa have resulted in the accession of many human skeletons of African origin in British institutions. Many of the skulls and skeletons were collected as representative specimens of 'racial types', but others came from a wide range of sources including military trophies, medical curiosities and "objects of interest'. This brief note is not intended to be a thorough examination of all African specimens in British institutions, but has instead focused on the presence of Khoe-San specimens in three major collections of human remains: the Natural History Museum, London (54 specimens); the Duckworth Collection at the University of Cambridge (11 specimens); and the Department of Anatomy at the University of Edinburgh (six specimens). The context of the collections is considered for each institution.
- Subjects
SOUTHERN Africa; ARCHAEOLOGICAL human remains; HUMAN skeleton; ANATOMICAL specimens; KXOE (African people); NATURAL History Museum (London, England); UNIVERSITY of Cambridge; UNIVERSITY of Edinburgh
- Publication
Goodwin Series, 2013, Vol 11, p21
- ISSN
0304-3460
- Publication type
Article