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02.11.2022

New insights into the daily lives of early industrial women workers

What hand skeletons tell about working in the 19th century: Re-searchers from the University of Tübingen and the Natural History Museum of Basel combine bone analysis with historical archives.

New research led by Dr. Alexandros Karakostis (our DFG Center's Junior Research Group Leader) and Dr. Gerhard Hotz, Curator of Anthropology at the Natural History Museum of Basel, demonstrated for the first time that hand bones preserve extensive information on the daily lives and activities of past women and men.

Official press release

 

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