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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)...
Aug 10, 2021 11 tweets 5 min read
Let's do an #archaeology thread 🧵 on the warriors and "warrior graves" of the Bronze Age Levant!
Photo: @metmuseum Standing warrior ca 3rd mil... This thread will highlight some of the work recently published with @ArwaKharobi and @nmaaranen, you can find it here! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…