Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii — There is a skull here, hundreds of fragments of bones there. Table after table is lined with human remains. One holds a near-complete skeleton, another has hundreds of tiny pieces of bone that could come from many different people. Together, it tells the…
I might apply to work there after I graduate this summer. True story.
Skeleton of a patient who suffered from fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, a condition in which muscle and connective tissue turns to bone (Mütter Museum, College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
You should really go to this museum.
pretty much what the back of our building looks like sometimes when someone is doing bone experiments….
Memories of pig burning day…
Bones Found in Ypsilanti…
Some bones were found by construction workers in Ypsilanti off Ann Street. They sent them to Michigan State University to have them analyzed. Eastern Michigan University has some pretty talented professors who could’ve done the same. I mean, they could’ve walked just a few feet and dropped them off.
Or, you know - I live here and I could’ve helped out. Seriously this is my dream scenario. Maybe I should change my phone number to 1-800-Anthropologist, so next time they’ll just call me. It’s worth a shot.
