700 Year Old Dead Man Brought Back To Life By Reconstructing Technology At Cambridge; To Know The Life of Poor People in Medieval City
A working class man from Cambridge who died over 700 years ago has been brought back to life after reconstructing technology. According to the researchers the reconstructing study is a project that will gain insights into some anonymous poor in medieval city.
Reports claimed that the 13th-century man or better known for scientists as Context 958 was found buried under graveyard. The place in the present is now the Old Divinity School Building of St. John's College, University of Cambridge. He was among the hundreds of dead buried in the place, Cambridge News has reported.
The purpose of the reconstructing project is to help them navigate and explore the life of medieval people. According to John Robb, a professor of anthropology and archeology department at Cambridge University stated that they don't know about much of the ordinary medieval people. The study conducted were most of the upper and middle classes.
According also to him, people live in medieval city with less property and money, nobody will write down anything about them. The skeletons are all that left for the scientists to track down the lives they have been living in the city. Reports claimed that most of the bodies that were found in the graveyard were adults which are laborers and impoverished scholars.
Dr. Chris Rynn, a lecturer at the Human Identification and Center of Anatomy at University of Dundee, lead the facial reconstruction. He further applied that forensic techniques to diagnose possible face structure, collaborating the facial anatomy and the tissue depths, The Verge has reported.
The DNA data has been analyzed, the man's eyes, color and hair will be added right after. Rynn claimed that Contect 958 has a masculine lower face, have feminine forehead and eyebrows. With all combined details, the skull is quite unusual and claimed that he looks pleasant.
The skeleton was well-nourished and has been living in diet enriched animal protein. Physical labor sign were also present and his death estimatedly between 1200 at the earliest and aged between 40 and 70. According to Robb, the man's skeleton was clearly came from a poor labor family that is a craftsman or tradesman.
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