The Frazerian question of murder turned into ritual sacrifice is foundational to cultural anthropology. Frazer described the antinomian figure a king, who was, at once, priest and murderer. Generations anthropologists have studied in ethnographic contexts theorized about its religious significance. But itself may turn problem, René Girard wrote “the sacrificial crisis”, when real issue failure ...

Studying the shoulder joint in a palaeo-osteological context in recent years, I have been struck, like Prescher & Klu$ mpen (1997), by the lack of information about the glenoid notch provided by the standard anatomical texts ; indeed equally unexplained is the pear-shape of the glenoid cavity itself. The 7th (1947) edition of Buchanan’s Manual of Anatomy, edited by Wood-Jones, states (p. 273) ‘...

Beriberi was recognised by the Chinese 3000 B.c. Tlhe etiology, however, remained obscure till 1870. In that year Eijkman, working in Java, notedl an epidemic of paralysis among fowls fed on polished rice. He found that this polyneuritis gallinarum could be cured if an extract of rice polishings were added to the diet. That polyneuritis gallinarum corresponded to human beriberi was shown by Fra...