the local historical society tossing around ideas rather than osteologists or researchers specializing in the time period/region.
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Replying to @UglyShmugly @AdmiralHip and
As I mentioned before, ancestry determination could be said to have a place in forensics, since the goal of a forensic examination is often to ascertain the identity of a modern individual. Archaeologically, this practice is much less clear cut, particularly in light of the
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Replying to @UglyShmugly @AdmiralHip and
history of bioanthropology. There are multiple multiple problems with this, not least of which is the fact that the baseline datasets are fucked up, incomplete, founded on outmoded/outdated/incorrect assumptions.
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Replying to @UglyShmugly @AdmiralHip and
Additionally, even if we assume that the datasets are not a mess and that the bones really do show ancestry through certain specific traits, admixtures today and in the past would make ancestry determination difficult if not impossible.
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Replying to @UglyShmugly @ISASaxonists and
Yes, thank you for this. I found it very distressing that the article talks about 'black' and 'white' features, compares her to Black women in 19th c America, and then from her features makes the North African claim because...they had a lot of mixing? Idk.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @ISASaxonists and
I'm not finding anything on JSTOR or Google Scholar about this, which may be my search terms or may be that they didn't do any analysis and just did a reburial or stored the individual. Gonna see if I can find info from the local historical society...
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Replying to @UglyShmugly @ISASaxonists and
I'm looking around too, and I'm finding nothing.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @ISASaxonists and
It's a single individual, randomly located, I kind of doubt anybody would want to do really intensive research on this? It's kind of sad that it was a news story in 2013 and then absolutely nothing after the initial discovery though.
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Replying to @UglyShmugly @ISASaxonists and
Massively troubling. We spend how much time on the recovery and identification of Richard III but nothing on this person.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @ISASaxonists and
Thing is, without any context, there's not a lot that can be done archaeologically. It might be interesting to do an actual osteological analysis, isotopes, etc., especially since it appears to be a fairly complete skeleton, but...
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true, which is even more frustrating.
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