The Age of Prostheses
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 …