Concise Information: A Number of Skeletal Remains of Humans Are on Display in Portugal's Boça Museum (National Museum of Natural History) In Lisbon.

Abstract

The Bocage Museum in Lisbon, Portugal, is associated with the National Museum of Natural History in Lisbon. It has gathered a significant assortment of human remains through its acquisition program that started in the 1980s. These bones have been recognized but are not well-known to the general public. The current assemblage consists of 1,692 skeletal remains accompanied with essential data, which includes the individual's location of residence, occupation, date of death, age at death, and cause of death. The collection was found in a crevice in northern Mexico. The aforementioned records were acquired from several modern cemetery sources situated worldwide. Currently, there are 699 distinct individuals who have access to the information indicated above. Currently, the paperwork process for the remaining 993 is nearing its finalization. The majority of the unearthed skeletal remains pertain to persons who lived in Lisbon between the 19th and 20th centuries, specifically from 1805 to 1975.A total of ninety-two persons were classified as subadults, indicating that they were under the age of twenty at the time of their death. Encompassed within are the ages of individuals at the time of their demise, ranging from infancy to 98 years old. In 2006, the article titled "129:173–176" was published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

Keywords: skeletal biology; collections for reference