Max Uhle

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Erickson, Clark L.

2010 Max Uhle en Filadelfia (1897-1899). In Max Uhle (1856-1944): evaluaciones de sus investigaciones y obras, edited by Peter Kaulicke, Manuela Fischer, Peter Masson y Gregor Wolff, Pp. 93-108. Pontíficia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima (PUCP) and Fritz Thyssen Stiftung für Wissenschatfsförderung, Berlin.

  • Jules

    When you work on human remains, do you think or wonder about the life of the person on whom you are working, or are your thought confined to aspects of conservation?

    • Lynn

      Personally, I often find myself musing about the person who made or used an artifact, especially when I find some trace of them, like a fingerprint. With human remains, oddly, I don’t find any more of a connection with the person, perhaps because they’re so clearly gone (or maybe it’s because I have a tendency to ‘personalize’ all the artifacts that I work on, referring to them as ‘my babies’ for instance). I tend to think more about the ones they left behind, who took such care to ensure a good afterlife for their loved one. For instance, the little girl mummy with the gold bangles on her wrist – very affecting.