Past Crimes. Archaeological and Historical Evidence for Ancient Misdeeds

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List o f Fi gure s

1. Some pollen grain varieties


2. The carbon­14 curve


3. Male and female skull morphology


4. The DNA double helix


5. Cuneiform tablet


6. The judgement of Anubis–the deceased’s heart weighed against a feather


7. Trained monkey arresting a thief


8. Mummy of Rameses III


9. Bone point between the vertebrae of a stone age individual from South Africa


10. Vigiles graffito found in Rome


11. Crucifixion bone and nail from a site in Israel


12. A Roman lead curse tablet


13. An Anglo­Saxon moot


14. Sutton Hoo sand body


15. The filed teeth of a Jomsviking


16. The Hedeby chest


17. The wooden sign claimed to be the Titulus Crucis


18. The inscription on the Glastonbury cross


19. The Winchester reliquary


20. A medieval rabbit warren after a manuscript illustration


21. Punishment of a baker


22. The grave of a possible indentured servantboy in Annapolis


23. A witch and her familiars from a seventeenth century woodcut


24. A seventeenth century pirate ship


25. The massacre of the survivors of the‘Batavia’


26. Hanging outside Newgate prison


27. Plan of Pentonville Prison 1840– 42


28. Executions at Tyburn


29. Blackbeard


30. Graffito on a ship on a wall at Brighstone, Isle of Wight


31. A copy of court sketches made during the trial of Eliza Jane Scoffham


32. Franz Muller


33. Katherine Webster and Julia Martha Thomas