Who needs an osteologist? (Installment 47)

Bioarchaeologist Sonia Zakrzewski was at London's Science Museum and snapped these images to share on Twitter:

And bioarch Twitter responded with predictable shock:

The whole skeleton needs sorting out and laying out properly. Or laying out as excavated. But not this mixed up mess.

— Dr Sonia Zakrzewski (@Sonia_Zak) January 1, 2018

Also, I'm not 100% certain, but that looks a lot like C1 in between the clavicles??

— Ruth C. (@Mumbleduck) January 1, 2018

And the vertebrae. What is going on with T11/T12?

— Angela Lieverse (@Angela_Lieverse) January 1, 2018

I like how you can pinpoint exactly where the person laying out the spine just went "oh, fuck it" and gave up.

— Ruth C. (@Mumbleduck) January 1, 2018

Sure is. Some spectacularly awful ordering of vertebrae. I always like having my lower neck sandwiched between my head & top of my neck!

— Dr Sonia Zakrzewski (@Sonia_Zak) January 1, 2018

And forearm bones not in standard anatomical position. Whee, thanks!

— Kristina Killgrove ☠ (@DrKillgrove) January 1, 2018

I hadn't even looked at the arms - was so bowled over explaining legs to kids & friends!

— Dr Sonia Zakrzewski (@Sonia_Zak) January 1, 2018

Those feet are messed up.

— Charity Upson-Taboas (@taboas_charity) January 1, 2018

Go home, Bleadon skeleton, you're drunk.

— Ruth C. (@Mumbleduck) January 1, 2018

Here's hoping that the Science Museum takes a page from the museum at Roman Bath and quickly offers to fix their multiple mistakes!

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Previous Installments of Who needs an osteologist?

• Roman Bath 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.