CLCV 1008 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lead Poisoning, Lindow Man, Terracotta Army

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Classical Civilization
• Course: CLCV 1008
• Professor: Goodfellow Marianne S.

Document Summary

Earliest european to survive as a preserved individual not sacrificed or. Shallow grave sites for british crew members/sailors for sir john franklin. Bodies were exhumed and the returned post observation by. Believed that the sailors died from lead poisoning; expected from canned tin foods where chemicals had leeched into the foods. Found in a peat bogged environment (acids from environment have mummified the bodies into a leather-like state, Due to chemicals in the mosses in the peat, the calcium from the preserved bodies is leeched whereby causing bones to become rubber-like. Bog peoples when found were often presumed/found as to having undergone a violent death. Lived in late iron age, 1st c ad. Was not labourer due to state of nails. (manicured) This is to check for changes in climate. Makah indians original inhabitants of site; this surviving race is now contributing to the recovery of the site and its artifacts and remains.