#Museum Of Human Osteology

[joscusu03]

Museum Of Human Osteology

Real Human Skulls, Skeletons, & Bones. Genuine antique human skulls. These skulls typically come from private collectors, medical professionals, and institutions.

Museum Of Human Osteology

[thecopperhammer102]

Museum Of Human Osteology

Real Human Skulls, Skeletons, & Bones. Genuine antique human skulls. These skulls typically come from private collectors, medical professionals, and institutions.

Museum Of Human Osteology

[et-excrucior]

So I’m going to highlight something I’m not sure people who like skeletons and curiosities think about often:

the human skeletal remains you see for sale in oddities shops were invariably grave-robbed.

I worked with human remains in an academic research context in the US for more than a decade. One of the first things I tried to teach my students was respect for the remains in our collections, not only because they were people, deserving of dignity in their death, but also because most of the skeletal remains in academic teaching collections were not donated voluntarily. In most cases, we have no idea exactly where they came from or to whom they belonged.

Historically, there has been a huge international trade in human skeletal remains for teaching medical students. The trade reached its peak in the 19th Century and continued for much of the 20th, and while ostensibly the practice was banned in India in 1985, it does still exist illegally. In the US and Europe, most of the remains in teaching collections were sourced from India through bone traders. Bone traders were (are) lower caste people charged with disposing of human remains—often by cremation, but also by interring in graves—but instead of doing so, sold the remains on to medical schools in the US/Europe through the intermediary of anatomical and medical supply companies. These anatomical specimens are the remains of people who were, unknowingly and without consent of their loved ones, denied their humanity in death to satisfy the appetite of the West for anatomical specimens, despite the remains of their own people being considered largely sacrosanct.

Which leads me to my next point: this practice originated under British Colonialism in India. I hope I don’t need to draw this point out, but objectification of these remains by medical students and researchers is a furtherance of the Western colonial project and othering of people of colour. As medical students, we’re trained to divorce ourselves emotionally from the remains we learn from in the name of professionalism. Medicine can often be confronting, and it serves patients and doctors alike to be able to continue working calmly and objectively in the face of those challenges. But in a world where empires and scientific disciplines have been (and continue to be) built on a legacy of scientific racism and dehumanisation, it behooves us to consider exactly how those teaching specimens were acquired—and how they came to be for sale.

Any human skeleton or human bones you see for sale in oddity stores are invariably retired teaching specimens, or were otherwise originally purchased through an anatomical specimen supply company that leveraged bone traders for acquiring their wares. In other words, those remains were grave-robbed, or stolen from funeral pyres and morgues. It is vanishingly unlikely that they are remains of known, ethically-sourced provenance like informed donation. If they were, they would not have been relinquished to the general public to be sold for profit. There would be contractual obligations that dictate how those remains would be managed once they need to be retired from teaching/decommissioned.

Please keep this in mind when you see human remains for sale in oddity shops. Buy plastic or ceramic teaching models instead. Don’t unwittingly continue creating a market for stolen human remains.

[er-cryptid]

View inside a bone

Human Body Museum Panama City Beach, Florida

[lexa-griffins]

Human Osteology manuals are like: give us 100€ for a book or buy the ones from the 19th century for 20€ with incorrect info we refuse to edit

[gremlins-hotel]

Grem! I wanna do history as well! Paleoanthropology to be exact. Any tips?

Hey there dude! I’m so glad to see someone else excited for the fields of history and anthropology, but history and paleoanthropology are very different! Paleoanthropology is a sect of physical anthropology that most often deals in hominid evolution, fossils, and that manner of subject, sometimes even dipping into primatology. Personally my favorite thing! History, on the other hand, while it is the study of human change, most often deals with our political, societal, cultural, and technological change, among other things. We often relegate history to recorded history or what can be reconstructed by archaeology.

While both are wonderful, I would try to choose one, since they don’t often intersect, unless you’re looking at the history of either field, then there’s an argument to be made.

Other words of caution I can give: get ready to do a lot of reading, most of which will be full of technical jargon. You will learn so much of your ethics and technique from previous literature and your professors (and through them, whoever taught them). There will be quite a bit of memorization and also academic writing depending on which way you go. Jobs will be competitive so it doesn’t hurt to shake hands with professors and bug them for opportunities. I know it’s scary, but it’s what’s gotten me the opportunities I’ve been offered. Even just writing your name and phone/email on a sticky note if you have nothing better. Each project you work on will come with its own set of strengths and issues, such as what my university’s archaeological lab faces daily with the human osteology lab. Purely field work in anthropology will not be as common as a CRM job in survey or resource management. You can also look into local museums, repositories, libraries, or historical departments (e.g., the Texas Historical Commission is where our state archaeologist works).

There is a lot more I could say, but then this post would take forever.

[dread-doughnuts]

Reintroducing Myself

Hello! Given the latest events on Twitter I felt that posting on here more regularly may be a good idea. And now is potentially a good time to reintroduce myself since some of my info is outdated.

You can call me Gab or Dread. I’m 26, use any pronouns (but lean towards They/Them), and am currently based in the Southeastern US.

I own a large collection of animal skulls (130+), which has been most of the content I’ve posted here. Many of my specimens were acquired secondhand from a friend in academia.

My background is primarily in anthropology and museums.

I co-own a Discord server focused on natural history called the Beetle Box. The server is 18+ (for ease of moderation) but it is open to members worldwide. A link to the server can be found below!

I have fairly extensive experience with human and animal osteology and am happy to help with identification requests.

I look forward to being a little more active here from now on!

[fates-theysband]

the only conundrum with my desire to be put in the bone museum is that near as i can tell i have a pretty standard human skeleton and so do they so they don't really need another one

so im adding that someone needs to steal the standard human skeleton from the museum of osteology (america's only skeleton museum!) and then conveniently have mine as a replacement

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

https://www.tcd.ie/tceh/blogs/vikings.php

Author Tenaya Jorgensen

What happens if when archaeologists excavate a Viking grave, but find no body inside? Are the grave goods found within enough to determine the identity – either sex or gender - of the individual? Perhaps it is time for archaeologists and historians to challenge their assumptions regarding the relationship between artefacts and gender. In order to move forward, we must also look back by re-examining the corpus of existing identifications and the reasons why those identifications were made in the first place.

My PhD dissertation is not about sexuality and gender. I had not intended to take a strong stance on gendered-issues, as my thesis attempts to chart an interdisciplinary macro-history of the Early Viking Age (790-920 AD). As such, there seemed to be little room within my area of study for the finer ruminations required for the discussion of identity politics.

But then I began to catalogue Viking Age Graves across Western Europe, and what I found - well, it bothered me. Of the 64 burial sites in Ireland, only 33 of these sites contained human remains. Of the remaining 31, the cemeteries and single burials were identified solely through grave goods. Similarly, in Scotland, 31 burial sites out of 60 evidenced human remains. The other 29 were, again, identified by Viking Age objects.

Why do we sex and gender Viking graves that contain no bodies?

While it is understandable that graves may be correctly identified through the use of grave goods, I was struck by the confidence with which scholars identified burials as either ‘male,’ or ‘female,’ depending on the assemblage provided.

For example, in the 1940s, Sigurd Grieg compiled Viking Antiquities in Scotland for Haakon Shetelig’s six volume compendium on Viking Antiquities in Great Britain and Ireland(1). Although now over eighty years old, Grieg’s work remains the most comprehensive survey available on Viking Age burials in Scotland. Only a few individual corrections have been made, but Grieg’s survey as a whole has not received any extensive updates, and these updates are much needed.

Grieg states that in 1862, “the skeleton of an aged man, interred with a sword and possibly with a shield,’ was excavated at Ardvonrig, on the Isle of Barra, in Scotland. Also discovered were a tortoise brooch, bronze brooch, bronze peninsular brooch, and a needle case, “evidently belonging to a woman’s grave.” The problem is, only one set of human remains was found. Despite the lack of a second body, Grieg stated that the “mound probably contained a double grave for a man and a woman.”(2) His assumptions were based only around the suggestion of weapons within the grave - no other justification was provided.

Fast forward to 1990, when Kate Gordon at the British Museum re-examined the excavated objects. She ultimately determined that the sword was not, in fact, a weapon, but a weaving sword/baton, while the shield was a pair of heckles, which are also textile equipment. Armed with the findings of her reanalysis, Gordon suggests that the individual buried at Ardvonrig, “in absence of osteological sexing, was almost certainly a female.”(3)

However, even Gordon’s reanalysis bothered me, for why must the individual buried on the Isle of Barra have been almost certainly a female? Marianne Moen’s 2019 PhD thesis, Challenging Gender: A reconsideration of gender in the Viking Age using the mortuary landscape, brilliantly examines this question by analysing common practices and separating exceptions from the rule.(4) That is to say, while women are often buried with textile equipment, and men are often buried with weapons, that does not mean that it is always so. This, of course, brings up a further difficult point regarding sex and gender. According to Jennifer Tseng in the American Medical Association Journal of Ethics, “sex refers to the biological differences between males and females. Gender refers to the continuum of complex psychosocial self-perceptions, attitudes, and expectations people have about members of both sexes.”(5) The former is much more straightforward - if we have a body, that is.

Gendered practices in Viking graves

There can be no conversation about gendering burial practices without mention of the Birka warrior. In 2017, archaeologists confirmed that a burial containing weapons could be positively associated with a female skeleton (Bj.581) through DNA analysis.(6) Response to their publication was swift, and the debate centered around whether the presence of weapons conclusively affirmed that the woman was, in fact, a warrior. The authors, with the addition of Neil Price from Uppsala University, offered a more nuanced take in 2019 when they published, ‘Viking warrior women? Reassessing Birka chamber grave Bj.581.’ While the first article meant to primarily address the genomic analysis, the latter article took greater care in examining the implications of both Viking Age funerary practices and archaeology, and ‘the ways in which we engender the societies of that time.”(7)

So how do we engender the Viking Age? Our representations of the Viking Age are coloured by societal norms of the 20th and 21st centuries - especially in popular culture and outside the confines of a sometimes rather sterile academic environment. That is to say, male biological sex was often synonymous with a man’s gendered identity, and that the role of a warrior was exclusively associated with men and males. As the authors of ‘Viking warrior women?’ themselves acknowledge, ‘the same interpretation [that the body of the warrior belonged to a man] would undoubtedly have been made had no human bone survived at all.’ While these authors suggest that this automatic conflation between men and swords was a product of its time (i.e., the late 19th century), they fail to acknowledge that these types of genderings are still occurring. Furthermore, we know these associations are still occurring today, because the survey of Ireland’s Viking Graves was only published in 2014, and in this survey, bodiless weapon burials are gendered as male.(8)

If we think twice about suggesting the presence of a male when a sword is discovered, can the truth also be said in reverse? If textile equipment is excavated, such as the baton and heckles found on Isle of Barra, does this mean we must automatically attribute the burial to a woman? While no biologically male burials have currently been identified with textile tools, many of the sites contain bodies of indeterminate sex - or simply no bodies at all. Furthermore, what of burials that contain both textile equipment and weapons, but with remains too insubstantial to be analysed for sexing? Moen states the simple and obvious truth: “we are simply asking the wrong questions. Perhaps less rigidity in expected gender roles may be the answer to how to interpret such apparently transgressive burials.”(9) Perhaps less rigidity in sexing burials is needed as well - for we have no sex without a body, and gendering burials based solely on grave goods can only limit our understanding of the people who lived during the Viking Age.

[touropeuk]

The Natural History Museum tour is an outstanding day of science and fun activity for all family members. Housing a staggering 70 million items, there are five main collections: Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology and Zoology. The Museum is renowned for its exhibition of dinosaur skeletons in a particularly large gallery of Dinosaurs, including a spectacular Diplodocus and Tyrannosaurus (T-Rex). Find the answers to such questions as who lived when and where, who were predators and prey and what happened to them. Start your tour with Blue Zone proceeding through the Dinosaur Gallery to the fish, amphibians and reptiles before heading to Human biology with images of nature and mammals. You will be able to take a photograph of blue whale model and then see specimens of marine invertebrates. Give a break in the cafe, then proceed to Green Zone where Creepy Crawlies, Fossil Marine Reptiles, Fossils from Britain and birds are. Then head to Red Zone through the Earth sculpture via an escalator for magnificent Volcanoes and Earthquakes, Restless Surface galleries. One floor up, visit Minerals, Treasures, The Vault and the oldest tree in the world, Grand Sequoia. Visit Darwin Centre, you can enjoy the excellent Wildlife Garden which is now being transformed into an urban garden. Natural History Museum is London’s day treat. Don’t miss that. You never know unless you visit it! 👉 Tourope.co.uk #naturalhistory #nature #taxidermy #paleontology #fossils #museum #oddities #fossil #science #vultureculture #naturalhistorymuseum #curiosities #cabinetofcuriosities #wunderkammer #skull #dinosaur #osteology #prehistoric #wildlife #geology #dinosaurs #skeleton #skulls #bones #taxidermyart #curiosity #skullcollection #naturalhistoryillustration #entomology (at Natural History Museum, London) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClSFG5PIOer/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[theheadlessphilosopher]

🎉If you get this, answer with 3 random facts about yourself and send it to the last 7 blogs in your notifications, anonymously or not! Let's get to know the person behind the blog.

Hello, nonnie! 💗

Hmm let’s see, 3 facts abt me…

1. I studied medical anthropology with a focus on human osteology. I miss it dearly and will hopefully one day be able to do something within the field.

2. One of my favorite places I’ve ever visited is Torino, Italia (yes I’m one of those people who calls places by their native names). Part of my family is from there and it is also home to the 2nd largest Egyptology museum in the world (the 1st being in Cairo)!

3. I used to be very heavily involved in music! I’m trying to get back into things, as I had to take a break from it after some not so great experiences. I actually used to have a regular gig performing at the Hard Rock Cafe in my city.

Thank you for the ask, Liebchen 💗

[myfeeds]

One of Swedish warship Vasas crew was a woman

About thirty people died when Vasa sank on its maiden voyage in 1628. We cannot know who most of them were, only one person is named in the written sources. When the ship was raised in 1961 it was the scene of a comprehensive archaeological excavation, in which numerous human bones were found on board and examined. “Through osteological analysis it has been possible to discover a great deal about these people, such as their age, height and medical history. Osteologists recently suspected that G could be female, on the basis of the pelvis. DNA analysis can reveal even more”, says Dr Fred Hocker, director of research at the Vasa Museum, in Stockholm, Sweden. Since 2004 the Vasa Museum has collaborated with the Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology at Uppsala University in Sweden to investigate all of the remains from Vasa and find out as much as possible about each individual. Initially the project focused on confirming if certain bones belonged to a specific person. Marie Allen, professor of forensic genetics, has led the work. “For us, it is both interesting and challenging to study the skeletons from Vasa. It is very difficult to extract DNA from bone which has been on the bottom of the sea for 333 years, but not impossible”, says Marie Allen. She continues: “Already some years ago we had indications that skeleton G was not a man but a woman. Simply put, we found no Y-chromosomes in G’s genetic material. But we could not be certain and wanted to confirm the result”. The result has now been confirmed thanks to an interlaboratory study with Dr Kimberly Andreaggi of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System’sArmed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFMES-AFDIL) in Delaware, USA. The AFMES-AFDIL is the American Department of Defense’s laboratory, specializing in human remains DNA testing from deceased military personnel. They have established a new testing method for the analysis of many different genetic variants. “We took new samples from bones for which we had specific questions. AFMES-AFDIL has now analysed the samples, and we have been able to confirm that G was a woman, thanks to the new test”, says Marie Allen. For Marie Allen and Kimberly Andreaggi, the analysis of the Vasa skeletons is a way to develop their forensic methods, which can then be used to analyse DNA in criminal investigations or to identify fallen soldiers. For the Vasa Museum the results of the DNA analysis are an important puzzle piece in the museum’s research into the people on the ship. Dr. Anna Maria Forssberg, historian and researcher at the museum, explains: “We want to come as close to these people as we can. We have known that there were women on board Vasa when it sank, and now we have received confirmation that they are among the remains. I am currently researching the wives of seamen, so for me this is especially exciting, since they are often forgotten even though they played an important role for the navy“. More results are expected shortly from the new samples. Marie Allen and Kimberly Andreaggi will be able to say something about how individuals looked, what colour their hair and eyes had, and possibly where their families came from. “Today we can extract much more information from historic DNA than we could earlier and methods are being continuously refined. We can say if a person was predisposed to certain illnesses, or even very small details, such as if they had freckles and wet or dry ear wax”, says Marie Allen. The Vasa Museum’s researchers are currently studying the skeletons from several perspectives, including the personal possessions found with them. Eventually the results will be presented in an exhibition at the museum and a book about the people who died on board Vasa.

[furiohsaa]

Did my taxes today and I went to buy myself a little treat as a reward on the oklahoma museum of osteology's gift shop site and HOLY SHIT YOU CAN BUY A WHOLE SET OF HUMAN FOOT BONES FOR FIFTEEN DOLLARS. FIFTEEN! THAT'S THE SAME PRICE AS THREE BOXES OF GIRL SCOUT COOKIES

[evoldir]

Fwd: Graduate position: UOslo.Zoo-archaeologyAncientDNA

Begin forwarded message: > From: evoldir@evol.biology.mcmaster.ca > Subject: Graduate position: UOslo.Zoo-archaeologyAncientDNA > Date: 1 February 2023 at 06:52:04 GMT > To: rdmpage@gmail.com > > > PhD position in zoo-archaeology and ancient DNA available at the > Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of > Biosciences, University of Oslo. > > The PhD fellow will be part of the interdisciplinary project "SAVECAVE: > baselines for conservation from threatened cave archives" funded > by the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences sustainability > initiative. In this project we will compile an extensive record > of Holocene palaeobiological and archaeological cave material from > Fennoscandia based on catalogued and newly excavated sub-fossil material, > in order to refine the chronology of Fennoscandian faunal dynamics in > response to Holocene human activity. Faunal material will be identified > using both osteological analyses and bulk-bone metabarcoding to maximise > taxonomic resolution. Prehistoric succession and dynamics of community > composition with specific focus on currently red listed taxa will be > evaluated. Communication of the scientific importance and fragility > of Nordic cave environments with their faunal remains and artefacts is > an important part of the project, with the ultimate goal to provide a > rationale for strengthened conservation management and legislation for > caves and associated contexts. > > The SAVECAVE project is a collaboration between the CEES (IBV, University > of Oslo) and the University Museum of Bergen. The SAVECAVE PhD fellow > will also work closely with members of the Evocave project ( > https://ift.tt/vgAuthW) > > Please find the full advertisements with application instructions here: > https://ift.tt/tmZhkes > > Application deadline: 28.02.2023.  Starting date 14.08.2023 (with absolute > latest start date 01.10.2023). > > Questions about the position can be directed to Sanne Boessenkool > (sanne.boessenkool@ibv.uio.no) > > Sanne Boessenkool

[thecopperhmmer]

Museum Of Human Osteology

Real Human Skulls, Skeletons, & Bones. Genuine antique human skulls. These skulls typically come from private collectors, medical professionals, and institutions.

Museum Of Human Osteology

[joscusu03]

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