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Cementing his reputation as the world’s foremost cranial collector, Morton published Crania Aegyptiaca (1844) in which he studied skulls and mummies sent to him by self-taught Egyptologist George Gliddon (1809-1857).
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Combe, George. 1839. Phrenological Remarks on the relation...
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8 lip 2021 · After the murder of George Floyd in May 2020 sparked protests for racial justice around the country, more and more people within and outside Penn began to see the Morton collection as a present-day perpetuation of racism and its harms, rather than just a historic example.
4 paź 2018 · After unearthing and analyzing handwritten documentation from scientist Samuel Morton, a doctoral candidate drew a new conclusion about the infamous 19th-century collection: though Morton...
The second of Morton’s major craniometry publications, Crania Aegyptiaca, or, Observations on Egyptian Ethnography, Derived from Anatomy, History, and the Monuments, was published in 1844. In this study, Morton extended his analysis of human races to ancient Egypt, claiming that the distinct racial differences shown in modern “Caucasoid ...
Christopher M. Stojanowski, William N. Duncan Historiography and forensic analysis of the Fort King George “skull”: Craniometric assessment using the specific population approach, American Journal of Physical Anthropology 140, no.2 2 (Apr 2009): 275–289.
Samuel George Morton (1799–1851) Crania Americana Philadelphia: J. Penington, 1839 . A staunch proponent of polygenism, the idea that race was analogous to separate human species, Morton collected a vast number of skulls from the Americas as well as North Africa.
