Overmodeled Skulls



Arthur C Aufderheide

2009


Bestell-Nr: 1446749

EUR 84,00  in den Warenkorb

About 6000 years B.C. a group of hunter-foragers at Jericho exhumed the cranium of the recent burial of one of their elders. Preparing lime-based plaster, they applied it to the facial aspect of the bare sjull, then sculpted a new face on it (they overmodeled the skull). Eight thousand years later several Melanesian island-based groups carried out a similar ritual using a vegetable putty. This book documents the major effort to fill the information gap between these two extreme times and locations.

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