Saturday, August 25, 2007
The UK Times today has a short report into some surprising research findings. The main text is as follows:
A study into the mysterious changing skull shape of medieval man casts serious doubt on current theories. Another report, in the Guardian, has more detail, including the important point that the changes are only found in male skulls. And yet another report is here. It's all very mysterious. I was aware that archeologists had found some changes in the shape of English skulls over the last thousand years, but I didn't know it was a change found elsewhere in Western Europe, or that skulls had changed in one direction and then back again in a few centuries. And before anyone says 'Black Death', and has me chewing the carpet, I must point out that the change between the 11th and 13th centuries precedes the Black Death. |