Bioarchaeologist, chemist | Nerd, coffee snob, loves fresh air and equality | She/her | Museum lover, but not museum apologist
Nov 21, 2022 • 67 tweets • 8 min read
Time to list my favorite human bones, starting with
right talus
A thread 🧵1/206
Left talus
(I'm predictable) 2/206
Sep 21, 2021 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
I'd like to comment on the human remains section of this paper in Scientific Reports, as a bioarchaeologist with experience in the ancient Near East.
In the paper, the authors claim Tell ElHammam was destroyed by a comet/asteroid, and is the Biblical Sodom...
Now, I'm not going to post any images of human remains from the paper in this thread, but I if people need access to the pdf let me know.
First, their evidence:
First, they find disarticulated large human remains, MNI (minimum number of individuals = 2)...