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A chandelier of bones, which contains at least one of every bone in the human body, hangs from the center of the nave with garlands of skulls draping the vault. Other works include piers and monstrances flanking the altar , a coat of arms of the House of Schwarzenberg , and the signature of František Rint , also executed in bone, on the wall ...
In 1870, a local woodcarver was tasked with artistically arranging the bones. He created the famous chandelier, bells in the chapel and a coat of arms of the Schwarzenberg noble family.
A skeleton in a bioarchaeology lab. Paleodemography studies demographic characteristics of past populations. [5] Bioarchaeologists use paleodemography to create life tables, a type of cohort analysis, to understand zdemographic characteristics (such as risk of death or sex ratio) of a given age cohort within a population.
A typical analysis will include: an inventory of the skeletal elements present; a dental inventory; aging data, based upon epiphyseal fusion and dental eruption (for subadults) and deterioration of the pubic symphysis or sternal end of ribs (for adults) stature and other metric data; ancestry; non-metric traits; pathology and/or cultural ...
Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold, Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshiped stocks and stones; Forget not: in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese that rolled
To date, some of the earliest tool usages have been discovered through the analysis of wear patterns on bone. [24] This is known as use-wear analysis, in which objects are microscopically examined for their wear patterns and striations. Such analysis determines if an object is a tool or was worked by humans and can also determine what an object ...
The skull is much decayed, but the teeth are sound and apparently of a young man. The pelvis is much decayed and the smaller bones of the lower extremities are gone. The integuments of the right knee, for four or five inches above and below, are in good preservation, apparently the size and shape of life, although quite black.
Bones of the Earth is a 2002 science fiction novel by Michael Swanwick. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 2002, and the Hugo , [ 1 ] Campbell , and Locus Awards in 2003. [ 2 ]