Who needs an osteologist? (Installment 58)

So these Nazca aliens. Man. I thought we'd all made memes and moved on.

But here comes Cliff Miles declaring there are 8 to 11 individuals and they're a new species in the genus Kosmosidae. LOL. He's got a 266-page (yes, really) paper discussing the purported aliens' anatomy, and it's a doozy. And by that, I mean his osteological terminology is atrociously bad and his ability to identify random bits of human remains cobbled together into... whatever these things are... is even worse.

Yes, this fake isn't even up to Piltdown standards. Now, I don't have much experience with reading X-rays, and even I can tell that these are bits and bobs of some poor soul who did not deserve to be reassembled randomly and passed off as an alien.

It's been four years since I posted here at PbO, but I figured, what the heck... Who needs an osteologist?

Welp, the red rectangle is the shaft of a long bone. Could be a humerus for all I can tell, but importantly that midshaft is at the elbow. It doesn't terminate in a metaphysis, it's broken and shoved into the elbow area. The yellow rectangle? Miles says that's the mysterious single carpal bone. It's actually a vertebral body (likely lower thoracic) rotated and stuck there. I think the blue rectangle shows some nonadult femora -- but turned upside down so that the distal ends are weirdly mushed into the pelvis. Or maybe upside-down femora with tibial epiphyses on top? And the green rectangle shows that these very human children whose skeletons are being used to further crackpot pseudoarchaeology theories were probably under-nourished at death (if those are indeed Harris lines). Don't even get me started on the "eggs" that are inexplicably, fully radiopaque. 

The rest of the 266-page paper -- which I'm not linking to, but you can easily find at the miles paper dot com -- is rife with conspiracy theories of all sorts. 

I thought the alien mummies were just a ridiculous story going around, when two were presented to the Mexican congress recently, but the truth is even sadder: ancient Peruvian children's bodies were desecrated by a bunch of terrible people claiming proof of their conspiracy theories.