Summary of Bill Bass & Jon Jefferson's Beyond the Body Farm

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 I had a memorable experience in 1964, when I was an eager assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas at Lawrence. I was excavating skeletons in the ancient hilltop citadel of Hasanlu, in northwestern Iran.
#2 I was invited to Iran in 1964 to help excavate ancient graves at Hasanlu. I found the skeletal remains of three men who had died while at a dead run, their arms and legs frozen in perpetual near-motion. The object cradled in their arms was a bowl made of solid gold.
#3 I was asked to help answer the question of who the three men in the bowl were. I thought I could, but it would not be easy. I needed to travel to Iran and dig up the bones of soldiers from both ancient armies, and compare their measurements to those of the area’s modern inhabitants.
#4 I developed a case of diarrhea in Tehran, which was not bad, but I took some Imodium tablets to help. After a couple of nights in Tabriz, we finally hit the road for Hasanlu.

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• Droit et juridique
• Criminal Law
• Droit pénal
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• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 10 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822506114
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Bill Bass & Jon Jefferson's Beyond the Body Farm
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I had a memorable experience in 1964, when I was an eager assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas at Lawrence. I was excavating skeletons in the ancient hilltop citadel of Hasanlu, in northwestern Iran.

#2

I was invited to Iran in 1964 to help excavate ancient graves at Hasanlu. I found the skeletal remains of three men who had died while at a dead run, their arms and legs frozen in perpetual near-motion. The object cradled in their arms was a bowl made of solid gold.

#3

I was asked to help answer the question of who the three men in the bowl were. I thought I could, but it would not be easy. I needed to travel to Iran and dig up the bones of soldiers from both ancient armies, and compare their measurements to those of the area’s modern inhabitants.

#4

I developed a case of diarrhea in Tehran, which was not bad, but I took some Imodium tablets to help. After a couple of nights in Tabriz, we finally hit the road for Hasanlu.

#5

The modern-day village of Hasanlu was home to five or six thousand people, most of whom worked in the agricultural fields lining the Solduz Valley. The town was strung out along the irrigation canal, called a jube (rhymes with tube).

#6

The village school was converted into a dormitory for the visiting archaeologists and anthropologists, who numbered only ten or twelve altogether. Three of the group were women, and for the sake of propriety, they stayed in a separate wing of the school.

#7

To answer Bob’s question about who the three men with the bowl were, I needed to see and measure as many skeletons of citadel defenders as possible. The three men fit the general description of being big and strong, except for the man who died with the bowl in his arms, who was very slight.

#8

I measured the villagers of the Solduz Valley, and found that they had very large noses and were very tall. I thought that I would be able to send overcoats to them, but it turned out that I was measuring people for overcoats for the winter.

#9

In 1964, I drove a Land Rover with Ted and a couple of other anthropologists from Hasanlu to Tehran. From there, I flew to Beirut, then London, New York, and Kansas City, where I found Ann, Charlie, and Billy waiting for me.

#10

I had set out to find out who had attacked the palace, but I had to return home weakened and less certain about the answers I had found. The soft-bodied guard with the bowl was in the company of two stronger, tougher palace guards.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The gold standard for positive identification is DNA testing, but it is not the only method. Other methods include matching a skeleton’s teeth, fillings, and other unique features with missing persons’ antemortem dental records, X-rays, and other medical information.

#2

The skull that was found in Blount County was unusual in shape, with a tall and narrow cranial vault that resembled that of an Oriental person. It was also covered in adipocere, a waxy substance that forms when fatty tissue decays in a very moist environment.

#3

The skull was the right age and race to be that of Elmer Reynolds, who had disappeared two years before in a small plane while taking a sixteen-year-old girl for a sightseeing flight. The girl, Linda Hendrick, was from Michigan.

#4