Who needs an osteologist? (Installment 37)
Welcome back to Who needs an osteologist?, where this installment is a northern European double-header! These images come by way of Jessica Seebauer, who appears to be on a jealousy-inducing tour of some awesome northern countries right now.
First, this subadult skeleton is on display in the National Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark:
But wait... enhance, enhance, enhance... is there something going on with the clavicles? I can't honestly tell if they're mis-sided or just flipped slightly:
First, this subadult skeleton is on display in the National Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark:
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| Thaaaat's not where those leg bones go! |
But wait... enhance, enhance, enhance... is there something going on with the clavicles? I can't honestly tell if they're mis-sided or just flipped slightly:
Notes Jessica, "what makes it almost ironic is that on the wall across from the subadult display, there was a decal illustration of an anatomically-correct skeleton." Ouch.
And then from the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo, Norway, comes this female Viking skeleton with a definitely mis-sided clavicle:
And here's the full picture for context of the male and female Viking remains:
Clavicles are hard, yo.
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Previous Installments of Who needs an osteologist?
- The American Anthropological Association needs an osteologist.
- Greensboro Science Center needs an osteologist.
- Scholastic News needs an osteologist.
- From Darkness on the BBC needs an osteologist.
- The Iraqi National Museum 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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