Who needs an osteologist? (Installment 57)
Three different bioarchaeologists alerted me to this absolute clusterf*ck of bones in Saturday's Telegraph:
I feel like I should be asking... are any of the bones actually correct? I guess the femora look fine. But the lower legs, the pelvis, all of the arm bones are completely wrong. I don't have the heart to zoom in on the ribs and shoulder girdle. Didn't anyone at the Historic Royal Palaces have a photograph of a skeleton? Or Halloween decorations? Or freaking Google?
It's unfortunate, since it seems like a really cool find! A middle-aged woman and a 7-year-old child found in the Tower of London.
(Thanks to @archaeowright, @CranioMattrics, and @noddinggoth.)
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I feel like I should be asking... are any of the bones actually correct? I guess the femora look fine. But the lower legs, the pelvis, all of the arm bones are completely wrong. I don't have the heart to zoom in on the ribs and shoulder girdle. Didn't anyone at the Historic Royal Palaces have a photograph of a skeleton? Or Halloween decorations? Or freaking Google?
It's unfortunate, since it seems like a really cool find! A middle-aged woman and a 7-year-old child found in the Tower of London.
(Thanks to @archaeowright, @CranioMattrics, and @noddinggoth.)
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Previous Installments of Who needs an osteologist?
- Penn Museum needs an osteologist.
- The TV show Ozark needs an osteologist.
- BioMed Research International 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.


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