Sending out the batsignal to you all too: @AdmiralHip @UglyShmugly @shovelingferret @FrauFry1
I think @DavidOlusoga references some instances in his book, but is there any extensive research we can draw on? 6/6 #archaeotwitter #anthrotwitter
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Replying to @ISASaxonists @AdmiralHip and
You've already seen this piece on the North African woman, probably: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/bc5d/e9acc24f0c703fbf575febcc9264ab310100.pdf …
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Replying to @BackCampusGreen @AdmiralHip and
Yeah we've exhausted academic published pieces, I think. We've come across lots of phrenology-based work.
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Replying to @ISASaxonists @BackCampusGreen and
That article linked is basically entirely phrenology shit.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @ISASaxonists and
The BBC article? I just started looking at this thread about 3 minutes ago, so I am still figuring out what's going on right now.
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Replying to @UglyShmugly @ISASaxonists and
No, the antiquity article here: http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/17041/1/M_Lewis_Bangle_Lady.pdf …
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @ISASaxonists and
Yeah, it's not phrenology per se, which is not to say that it is not problematic as all hell. I have multiple very strong opinions about ancestry determination which don't necessarily lend themselves well to a Twitter discussion, but I will try here.
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Replying to @UglyShmugly @AdmiralHip and
Note: This is My Personal Opinion (TM) from my training as a paleopathologist, osteologist, and archaeologist, and not any statement from any institutions I am affiliated with or have been affiliated with in the past.
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Replying to @UglyShmugly @AdmiralHip and
In forensic anthropology, which I have limited experience of, ancestry determination may be necessary due to the nature of the work. However, the datasets used and particularly in the article under discussion here, I have serious misgivings about the accuracy of the determination
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Replying to @UglyShmugly @AdmiralHip and
FORDISC (the program used in this examination) has issues. (See some criticisms here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FORDISC ). I winced when I saw it in the article, honestly.
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Yes I understand the necessity when, say, identifying remains of a victim that can’t be ID’d with DNA for whatever reason.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @ISASaxonists and
Exactly. I've had this conversation with a friend of mine who does forensic anthro and we go back and forth a bit. I'm willing to accept it *in conjunction with other evidence* to bring a family some peace.
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