ANT210H5 Lecture 17: Lecture Note-March 2
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Wednesday, march 2, 2016 continue discussion on egypt slide: we know about 1. who preceded dynastic egypt. Discussion of today starts with this question theres a town near the pyramid of giza that has been excavated since 2002. Richard reddings found 310,000 bone fragments in those sites. A lot of garbage in the barracks and around the barracks. Lots of mammal bones, fish, bird bones ratio 13:2:1. Back in the time, beef was expensive and that"s what the managers and supervisor ate. He was so unknown, and wasn"t important that his tomb wasn"t robbed, everything he had in there remained there. And it wasn"t because of the curse, people just didn"t care for him. Lord carnarvon (?) was in egypt when the tomb opened, but he when he was thee he was already sick with so many different complications, and he died. Also foreigners death rate was always younger so it was unlikely that it was the curse.
