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The beginnings of human palaeontology: prehistory, craniometry and the ‘fossil human races’
MATTHEW R. GOODRUM
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The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 49 / Issue 3 / September 2016

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10 October 2016, pp. 387-409

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Since the nineteenth century, hominid palaeontology has offered critical information about prehistoric humans and evidence for human evolution. Human fossils discovered at a time when there was growing agreement that humans existed during the Ice Age became especially significant but also controversial. This paper argues that the techniques used to study human fossils from the 1850s to the 1870s and the way that these specimens were interpreted owed much to the anthropological examination of Stone, Bronze, and Iron Age skeletons retrieved by archaeologists from prehistoric tombs throughout Europe. What emerged was the idea that a succession of distinct human races, which were identified using techniques such as craniometry, had occupied and migrated into Europe beginning in the Ice Age and continuing into the historic period. This marks a phase in the history of human palaeontology that gradually gave way to a science of palaeoanthropology that viewed hominid fossils more from the perspective of evolutionary theory and hominid phylogeny.

Sofie Lachapelle , Conjuring Science: A History of Scientific Entertainment and Stage Magic in Modern France. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 216. ISBN 978-1-137-49768-0. £60.00 (hardback).
Laura Tradii
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The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 49 / Issue 3 / September 2016

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10 October 2016, pp. 491-492

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Samuel J. Redman , Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. 373. ISBN 978-0-674-66041-0. £22.95 (hardback).
Samuel J.M.M. Alberti
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The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 49 / Issue 3 / September 2016

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10 October 2016, pp. 500-501

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Robert Gilmore McKinnell , The Understanding, Prevention and Control of Human Cancer: The Historic Work and Lives of Elizabeth Cavert Miller and James A. Miller. Leiden: Brill, 2016. Pp. xvi + 196. ISBN 978-9-004-28679-5. €45.00 (paperback).
Coline Loison
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The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 49 / Issue 3 / September 2016

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10 October 2016, pp. 508-509

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The beginnings of human palaeontology: prehistory, craniometry and the ‘fossil human races’

Sofie Lachapelle , Conjuring Science: A History of Scientific Entertainment and Stage Magic in Modern France. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 216. ISBN 978-1-137-49768-0. £60.00 (hardback).

Samuel J. Redman , Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. 373. ISBN 978-0-674-66041-0. £22.95 (hardback).

Robert Gilmore McKinnell , The Understanding, Prevention and Control of Human Cancer: The Historic Work and Lives of Elizabeth Cavert Miller and James A. Miller. Leiden: Brill, 2016. Pp. xvi + 196. ISBN 978-9-004-28679-5. €45.00 (paperback).

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