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Bone Broke by Jess Beck is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
Category Archives: Fragmentary Remains
Orienting and Siding ‘Regular’ Ribs
I’ll begin by admitting that ribs are some of my least favorite bones to deal with. [Sidebar: I took a week-long forensic anthropology overview course once (the 25th year of this), and I was astonished at the extent to which … Continue reading
Posted in Fragmentary Remains, Osteology, Ribs, Siding Tricks
Tagged costal groove, orienting ribs, osteology, siding ribs
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If you got a fragment, yo I’ll sort it
Apologies to Vanilla Ice. There are around 206 bones in the adult human body. However, one of the joys* of working with prehistoric human remains is that taphonomy, mortuary practices and several thousand years worth of soil pressure all unite … Continue reading
Posted in Equipment, Fragmentary Remains
Tagged Bone fragments, Copper Age burials, size sorting fragments, zonation method
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