Unlocking the chemical memory of ancient bones
October 17, 2016
As Halloween approaches and the shops begin to fill with stereotypical collections of plastic skeletons, researchers at the University of Nottingham are turning their attention to a collection of real bones dating back to medieval times. In recent years at the largest monastic excavation in Europe, Norton Priory in Runcorn, more thanĀ 130 skeletons from the …