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Christian Meyer

@osteoarc.bsky.social
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OsteoArchaeologist | Dr. ☠️ Bioarchaeology, Funerary Archaeology, Taphonomy, Palaeopathology & Zooarchaeology | All about skeletal remains & their context.

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Christian Meyer @osteoarc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Anthropeum.com · Jun 18 2026 🟩🟦🟨🟦🟩🟦🟨🟨🟦🟩 76.326 · top 5% of players today! Not too bad for a bone nerd... and there even was a bone artifact among the objects today! If we are lucky, there might be even more... ? Maybe tomorrow... ?🤓
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Anthropeum
A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
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Christian Meyer @osteoarc.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Nice. Do you know where the "pike" 🐟 information comes from? Thanks.
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Christian Meyer @osteoarc.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I have a vague feeling that this might be a bird bone but - honestly - I really don't know... I haven't found a good comparison yet.
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Christian Meyer @osteoarc.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Thanks! There is a certain similarity in shape and size, yes. But the details don't add up for part of a vertebra, I think. I am quite confident that I would recognize a human bone, but this looks different. So I am leaning more towards an animal bone, which opens up the field quite a bit...
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Christian Meyer @osteoarc.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
🦴 Does anyone have a serious suggestion what this bone might be? It is slightly damaged but not much is missing, I think. So it should be recognizable I hope? Thanks!
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Christian Meyer @osteoarc.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Ok, that was really quick! This is a really useful category, I think. But there are quite a few papers on human skeletal remains as I can see... 😉
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Christian Meyer @osteoarc.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Nice! But if there is "Archaeozoology", there should also be one for "Human Osteology" or "Anthropology" or something similar? Surely there are some articles that contain information about human skeletal remains. Maybe also one for "Funerary Archaeology", independent of the chronological period?
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Christian Meyer @osteoarc.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
🏺 The best archaeology is of course the archaeology where the documentation has turned into archaeology itself.
An old and fragmented caramel-colored piece of paper with old handwriting in pencil in a plastic ziploc find bag held by a gloved hand.
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Christian Meyer @osteoarc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
My horse bones are likely 19th/20th century. They were discarded as too modern from an excavation site. Your find could be any age, as was commented before... without a costly radiocarbon date the age will remain a mystery I fear 😄
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Christian Meyer @osteoarc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🦴 Mystery is already solved, but... I needed an excuse to dust off the horse bone box on the top shelf anyway.
Comparing a horse bone held in hand to one shown on a laptop screen (full size).Comparing a horse bone held in hand to one shown on a laptop screen (distal view).
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Christian Meyer @osteoarc.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
Maybe @carolinepennock.bsky.social (who I hope doesn't mind this ?) can drop you a few quick leads... ? I just saw that she had a recent talk which touched upon the history of chocolate?
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Christian Meyer @osteoarc.bsky.social · 25/05/2024
Maybe my guess was too cryptic 😄 I would guess "India" as well, and a certain river that does not contain an "ind". But we'll see in the solution next week...
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Christian Meyer @osteoarc.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
Although it`s in the name, it doesn't come from the Rio de la Plata, right? Or anywhere near it... And a rough tooth count might indicate that... "indicate" is another misleading word in this context, at least in riverine terms?
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Christian Meyer @osteoarc.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
So that's where I lost the other half...
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Christian Meyer @osteoarc.bsky.social · 03/03/2024
Just an idle guess... before going to sleep a (long) while. Could it actually have climbed that branch?
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Christian Meyer @osteoarc.bsky.social · 26/12/2023
Wer erlebt denn dann die Abenteuer vor "Young Indiana Jones"? Youngest Indiana Jones? Henry Jones (Sr.) ? Oder gab es da einen Riss im Raum-Zeit-Kontinuum mit den üblichen Folgen?
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Christian Meyer @osteoarc.bsky.social · 26/12/2023
Sind die Bücher im Regal chronologisch sortiert, oder gibt es da ein anderes, rätselhafteres, Kriterium? Indiana Jones and the Order of the Books?
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