Who needs an osteologist? (Installment 23)
The ever-vigilant Robert Cighetti found yet another skeleton in need of an osteologist:
As near as I can tell from the information at this link (in Italian), a small group of possibly amateur archaeologists (Gruppo Archeologico della Val Nure) organized an exhibition of local artifacts and skeletons from Vigolzone at a museum in Piacenza ("Alle origini di vicus ussoni: storia di un popolamento antico").
The three burials, which are Lombard in date (6th-7th c AD), were found in boxes and re-articulated--poorly, it seems--for the exhibit. Reportedly, there's an exhibition catalogue, but I can only get access to low-quality photos of the exhibition catalogue on the GAVN Facebook page (here's a link to a photo with the three tombs).
I don't see this exact photo anywhere else on the internet (I reverse-google-imaged it). At the GAVN Facebook page, though, I found this photo of the same skeleton. The femora are fixed in this one, but the clavicles and scapulae are still wrong.
At any rate, from the clavicles to the scapulae to the femora, this skeleton has some major issues in anatomical placement!
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Previous Installments of Who needs an osteologist?
As near as I can tell from the information at this link (in Italian), a small group of possibly amateur archaeologists (Gruppo Archeologico della Val Nure) organized an exhibition of local artifacts and skeletons from Vigolzone at a museum in Piacenza ("Alle origini di vicus ussoni: storia di un popolamento antico").
The three burials, which are Lombard in date (6th-7th c AD), were found in boxes and re-articulated--poorly, it seems--for the exhibit. Reportedly, there's an exhibition catalogue, but I can only get access to low-quality photos of the exhibition catalogue on the GAVN Facebook page (here's a link to a photo with the three tombs).
I don't see this exact photo anywhere else on the internet (I reverse-google-imaged it). At the GAVN Facebook page, though, I found this photo of the same skeleton. The femora are fixed in this one, but the clavicles and scapulae are still wrong.
At any rate, from the clavicles to the scapulae to the femora, this skeleton has some major issues in anatomical placement!
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Previous Installments of Who needs an osteologist?
- Polish archaeologists at the site of Kamien Pomorski need an osteologist.
- The South Florida Science Center and Aquarium needs an osteologist.
- GitHub needs an osteologist.
- The Telegraph needs an osteologist.
- University Museum in Chieti-Pescara needs an osteologist.
- NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences needs an osteologist.
- Huffington Post and the Mars Rover need an osteologist.
- PBS and Richard III need an osteologist.
- Abbot House Museum needs an osteologist.
- The Zanjan Museum needs an osteologist.
- National Geographic Channel's "Nazi War Diggers" needs an osteologist.
- BBC/NOVA needs an osteologist.
- The Penn Museum needs an osteologist.
- National Geographic needs an osteologist.
- Acura needs an osteologist.
- The "African" woman in Fairford, England, needs an osteologist.
- Museo delle Grotte needs an osteologist.
- Either NPR or Yale needs an osteologist.
- Yorkshire Museum needs an osteologist.
- Staffordshire University needs an osteologist.
- And, of course, Bones needs an osteologist.
Comments
I had the opportunity to have a look at those Lombard skeletal remains (a male, a female, and a subadult individual). They're now safely stored in cardboard boxes, but I think they would greatly appreciate an osteologist taking care of them!
Btw, nice post, as always ;-)