Who needs an osteologist? (Installment 31)
As Zachary Cofran pointed out when I shared this Nature news piece on archaeologists' return to Shanidar, the Iraqi National Museum needs an osteologist:
The scapulae are flipped. The right clavicle is on the right, but it looks like the sternal end is lateral. The left ulna is upside down. The thoracic vertebrae appear to be flipped upside down too. But seriously, what in the world are metatarsals doing in the hand?!?!?
Oofa.
Did I miss anything else? I'm typing this up fast before heading in to teach Human Osteology class...
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Previous Installments of Who needs an osteologist?
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| Credit: Hadi Mizban/AP/Press Association Images The skeleton of a Neandertal found at Shanidar Cave, displayed at the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad. |
Oofa.
Did I miss anything else? I'm typing this up fast before heading in to teach Human Osteology class...
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Previous Installments of Who needs an osteologist?
- Halloween stores need an osteologist.
- The New York Times needs an osteologist.
- Morgan's Cove needs an osteologist.
- Dunstable Baptist Church needs an osteologist.
- Once again, Bones needs an osteologist.
- Tampa Bay History Center needs an osteologist.
- The Archaeological Museum of the Castle of Santo Anton needs an osteologist.
- The Gruppo Archeologico della Val Nure 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.


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