Prostheses in antiquity / edited by Jane Draycott.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The complex aspects of experimental archaeology : the design of working models of two ancient Egyptian great toe prostheses / Jacky Finch -- A very distinctive smile : Etruscan dental appliances / Jean Mackintosh Turfa and Marshall Becker -- Prosthetic hair in ancient Rome / Jane Draycott -- "An amputee may go out with his wooden aid on Shabbat" : dynamics of prosthetic discourse in Talmudic traditions / Lennart Lehmhaus -- Evidence of a late antique amputation in a skeleton from Hemmaberg / Josef Eitler and Michaela Binder -- Living prostheses / Katherine van Schaik -- "Prosthetic imagination" in Greek literature / Anne-Sophie Noel -- The psychology of prostheses : substitution strategies and notions of normality / Ellen Adams.