Who needs an osteologist? (Installment 44)
Today's installment of "Who needs an osteologist?" comes courtesy bioarchaeologist Megan Perry, who was watching a Science Channel clip on the skeletons found in the Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent at Teotihuacan.
Here's the clip: (if the embedded YouTube video doesn't work for you, this one might)
Anything else I'm missing? Pretty sure those humeri have issues. And the foot bones. But it's hard to tell in the video...
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Here's the clip: (if the embedded YouTube video doesn't work for you, this one might)
So, what did you notice? I rolled my eyes at the radii, which were upside down when being held, and the os coxae, which are mis-sided.
Then raised my eyebrows at the overabundance of lumbar vertebrae.
Then heaved a deep sigh for the incorrectly placed clavicles.
Anything else I'm missing? Pretty sure those humeri have issues. And the foot bones. But it's hard to tell in the video...
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Previous Installments of Who needs an osteologist?
- Museo delta Antica needs an osteologist.
- Usborn publishers needs an osteologist.
- DK Publishing needs an osteologist.
- Corvin Castle needs an osteologist.
- Loch Ness needs an osteologist.
- Giant Screen Films/IMAX needs an osteologist.
- The National Museum in Copenhagen and the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo need 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.
- Kathy Reichs needs 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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