empty Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Hi! it is some animal bone or human bones? thank You. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichW9090 Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Those are human. The plural of "anecdote" is not "evidence". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Those are human. Seriously? I am surprised at how long the spinous process is on the vertebra! "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squali Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 The length of the spinous process seems proportional to a human vertebrae but the curled transverse process doesn't match what I've seen on Google images. None of which means a hill of beans of course. Rich could you give your reasoning I think it would be helpful based on the location. Thanks It's hard to remember why you drained the swamp when your surrounded by alligators. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichW9090 Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 (edited) The vertebra is the one I'm least sure of, but the scapula and the humerus certainly appear human. Human long bone has a whole different appearance from other animal bones. On the long bones, the cortex is very thin, and the spongy trabecular bone is open and porous, which you can see clearly on the humerus. The single vertebra does look more like an artiodactyl. The other vertebra, looks to be a C6 or C7, and looks human to me, as does the clavicle. The broken proximal ulna looks human as well. Empty, you didn't provide any information on context, location, circumstances or age. That would help. Edited August 21, 2014 by RichW9090 1 The plural of "anecdote" is not "evidence". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinodigger Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 (edited) My curator at the museum here has a good response for this: Can't really get a good look at the humerus, but from what I can tell the scapula are human. The clincher for me is in the photograph of the clavicle laying on top of the ribs. That is a dead ringer for a human clavicle. As far as the verts go, there is definitely something weird going on there, surely pathological. I'm seeing osteoporitic changes for sure and what looks like an extreme form of some type of arthritis creating the undulating in the edges of the vertebral body and the curling in of the facet joints (or z-joints). There could definitely be some other more specific disease associated with the verts. http://images.rheumatology.org/image_dir/album75691/md_99-04-0034.tif.jpg Edited August 27, 2014 by dinodigger 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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