Remains of legendary German outlaw on display for 220 years. It was the wrong body
Johannes Bückler, known by the name “Schinderhannes,” was a legendary outlaw from the late 18th century, and his body was ...
Skeletal analysis in Tombos tombs finds hardworking individuals buried among the elite
Skeletal analysis at Tombos, an ancient Egyptian colonial settlement in Nubia, reveals a more complex labor and social ...
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1.5 Million-Year-Old Bone Tools Discovered in Tanzania Rewrite the History of Human Evolution [analysis]
The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...
Famed German robber’s skeleton identified after 220-year-long mix-up
Schinderhannes is a nickname for Johannes Bückler, a criminal who was born sometime in 1779 in Germany, to a family of ...
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Historical robber ‘Schinderhannes’ clearly identified: skeletons were mixed up about 220 years ago
The legendary robbers ‘Schinderhannes’ and ‘Schwarzer Jonas’ were executed by guillo-tine in Mainz in 1803. In 1805, the first chair holder of anatomy at the University of Hei-delberg, Jacob Fidelis ...
New Fossil Discovery Challenges Assumptions About Early Human Size
Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...
‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Needs To Stop Relying on This Revolving Door of Characters
Grey's Anatomy has shifted its focus to one-off patient storylines in recent seasons, but they lack the emotional impact of ...