The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #68199   Message #1150344
Posted By: Rapparee
30-Mar-04 - 03:56 PM
Thread Name: BS: Digging up Mummies on TV
Subject: RE: BS: Digging up Mummies on TV
Yes, SRS, I did. And I find it to be, in a very understated way, reprehensible in the extreme (I'm understating it because my actual feelings call for a lot of profanity, discussion of folks' ancestors, hygenic habits, sexual and other proclivities, and so on). Did you know that Hadyn's skull was taken for the same sort of phrenological study -- only to prove why he was such a musical genius? Science and pseudoscience have a lot to answer for.

I would LOVE to see DNA and other studies done on early bodies AND on current, living ones. Perhaps we could learn more about people and their movements.

Personally, I don't care if it's found that I'm not "pure" Caucasian, because I doubt that I am -- far too many armies tramped around Europe for that to be the case and besides, I don't see that it matters a rodent's rectum.