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The Age of Prostheses

Posted onJanuary 19, 2016February 7, 2019 By David Perry

Last week I blogged about Candida Moss’ piece on relics and commerce. She’s got another piece out, this one on historical prosthetic limbs. Excavations of an ancient tomb near Turpan, China, have uncovered the 2,200-year-old remains of a man buried with a hoof-tipped prosthetic limb. In a paper recently published in the Journal of Chinese … Continue ReadingThe Age of Prostheses

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