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National Geographic : 1982 Jan
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welcome support. Our skeleton's position was consistent with death from exposure. In their last hours, Marcella explained, its vic tims often cease to feel cold; instead they drift first into a phase of relaxed content ment and thence into sleep. We called our lady Granny because she had lost all her lower molars-though the tooth loss did not necessarily point to ad vanced age. In the opinion of Dr. Lawrence Angel, curator of physical anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution, Granny was between 35 and 45, a delicately boned wom an about 5 feet 5 inches in height. Around her head was the ultimate surprise: an iron band with a pewter knob at one end and a twist at the other, the remains of a metal cored fabric support over which Elizabe than women rolled their hair. It was a style popular between about 1590 and 1615. The band was twisted and bent back around the nape of her neck-as though roughly dragged away from her head. What scenario could bring this matronly New Clues to an Old Mystery
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