Who needs an osteologist? (Installment 46)

Spoiler alert: this episode of "Who needs an osteologist?" has a special twist at the end.

This weekend, archaeologist Steph Evelyn-Wright posted the following to Twitter:

Who needs an osteologist? Saw this today in Bath. The clavicles look the wrong way round to me. @DrKillgrove @BOSotonUni @Sonia_Zak @RomanBathsBath . #osteology #bioarchaeology #whoneedsanosteologist #oops pic.twitter.com/Q3GCfDUBBc

— Steph Evelyn-Wright (@archaeowright) December 3, 2017

Steph noticed this display at the Roman baths in Bath, Somerset (UK), and immediately noticed that the clavicles are the wrong way 'round. Several of us concurred with her assessment, and an archaeologist further asked:

I do wonder whether the museums that have this happen to them ever actually go back and correct their mistakes.

— Matthew Lee (@CranioMattrics) December 4, 2017

This morning, the Roman baths at Bath responded! I am pretty sure this marks the first time that "Who needs an osteologist?" has been acknowledged, with a promised fix:

You're right! Thank you very much for pointing this out. This has already been passed on to the Roman Baths Collections team and will be changed ASAP.

— The Roman Baths (@RomanBathsBath) December 4, 2017

So awesome that Roman Baths took this series of tweets seriously and are making their exhibit better. Some day, I hope to go back -- my husband and I visited for our honeymoon waaaaaay back in 2000.

Clavicles: nope, not like that. Thankfully, Roman Baths have
promised to fix them straightaway!

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Previous Installments of Who needs an osteologist?

• The Education Center needs an osteologist.
• The Science Channel 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.