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🦕 I guess I just observed a real dinosaur feeding on a... building? Truly ripped it apart, quite a sight.

📝 New publication from some weeks ago... Even made it onto the cover. Well, not myself, obviously, but the Bronze Age bones I analysed after they spent 100 years in storage...

🦴 Well, of course the best preserved tiny bone fragment from this Neolithic skeleton (which only consists of very few tiny bone fragments) turns out to be not from this skeleton at all... it is actually a fragment of a bone awl, likely made from deer bone 🙃

🦴 While the first few inds. from this new Neolithic series were just crumbly, unidentifiable bits & pieces, the next skeletal person really has all the goods: Healed fractures? ✅ Ankylosis? ✅ Tarsal coalition? ✅ Switched & rotated teeth? ✅ Incredibly robust humerus? ✅ ...

💀 I guess that is my first (partial) trephination then... found in a Late Neolithic skull, after reconstructing it from way too many tiny pieces...

💀 Second trephination from the same Neolithic cemetery... Those Corded Ware people apparently really liked scratching their heads. And left me doing the same while trying to reconstruct them...

🦴 Second case of a broken bone awl hiding amongst the Neolithic human skeletal remains. Always check your tiny bone fragments... even if there are hundreds of them 🔍

🦴 Third case of a broken bone awl hiding among the highly fragmented Neolithic human skeletal remains. Well, always double check your tiny fragments, even if there are thousands of them... 🧐

🦷 Human #Osteoarchaeology friends, have you ever encountered a huge talon cusp on a tooth from an archaeological skeleton? I guess I just found one in a maxillary lateral incisor but they do seem very rare in the osteoarchaeological literature, especially for Europe... ?

🦷 Human #Osteoarchaeology friends, another question about unusual teeth: Has anyone ever encountered a talon cusp on a supernumerary (unerupted) incisor? Or are accessory teeth just too variable in shape to be classified in this way? Any hints very welcome... Thanks!

💀 Well, I guess that is trephination no. 3 from this Late Neolithic cemetery... and this time I didn't even need to reassemble the important part of the skull.

💀 A day in the Neolithic: They opened his grave, removed his skull, and with a flint blade cut out a piece of bone the length of a man's hand. They re-placed the skull in another position, deposited the piece of bone in the grave and buried an old man with a broken arm on top.

💀 Last set, best set... a Neolithic commingled triple or quadruple burial. So far, no one knows. Let's find out and begin by sorting through the highly fragmented cranial remains...

☀️💦🦴 Trying to survive the heat by adopting a semi-aquatic lifestyle... the very first step already revealed a nice and unexpected find...

Good luck little guys 🐜🐜🐜

🦷 Does anyone have any experience with short root anomaly in maxillary canines in archaeological human skeletons? I have seen short rooted maxillary incisors before, but not a really short rooted canine... until today. Any hints welcome... 🧐

🦴🐩 The problem with finding carnivore gnaw marks on prehistoric human skeletal remains is... once you have convinced yourself that they are actually real, you start to see them everywhere...

⚰️💀🦴 Of course the skeleton that is the least interesting in pure archaeological terms from this little trench is by far the most interesting in osteo(archaeo)logical terms...

🦴🔍 I guess I just found my first case (as far as I remember) of smooth and shiny eburnation outside of an actual joint surface... A curious case of a non-united olecranon fracture. Has anyone encountered something similar before?

🙃 TFW you randomly, of course late in the evening, stumble upon a long-forgotten email (from last week) that contains a 35-page-proof that needed to be checked and sent back ... (checks dates) ... yesterday.