Who needs an osteologist? (Installment 54)

Over on Instagram, biological anthropology graduate student Maya Miljević tagged me in an image from a published article, asking her followers "What's wrong in this picture? I mean, how can anyone let a photo like this be accepted in a scientific journal?"

The upside down clavicles are cliché at this point, but the backwards elbows get me every time -- I mean, how do your arms bend?

What else do you notice?

Image from this article:

Andreas G. Nerlich, Alfred Riepertinger, Ralph Gillich, and Stephanie Panzer, “Paleopathology and Nutritional Analysis of a South German Monastery Population,” BioMed Research International, vol. 2015, Article ID 486467, 8 pages, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/486467.

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Previous Installments of Who needs an osteologist?

• Museo de Navarra needs an osteologist.
• Blade Runner 2049 needs an osteologist.
• Marvel Comics and Wolverine need an osteologist.
• Voodoo Doughnut needs an osteologist.
• WikiHow needs an osteologist. 
• Runner's World needs an osteologist. 
• London's Science Museum 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.