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The Brain Collector
The long read: Using cutting-edge methods, Alexandra Morton-Hayward is cracking the secrets of ancient brains – even as hers betrays her
The dig revealed many surprises: ancient underwear, skeletons with evidence of syphilis, a massive coffin whose oak planks preserved the imprint of a corpulent man described by the chief archaeologist as “the stereotype image of Friar Tuck”. In the summer of 2008, a team of archaeologists with the York Archaeological Trust were excavating a network of drainage channels from the iron age near the village of Heslington, when they found a dark-stained skull lying face-down in the clay. “That a PhD student is wanting to take this forward is brilliant – somebody who can understand the chemistry, the physics, the genetics, all these things.” One of Morton-Hayward’s advisers, Prof Greger Larson, mentioned that one of her “superpowers” is her ability to “to reach out and befriend experts in a wide variety of different fields”.
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