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#thrifting#shiftythrifting#submission#tw: death#human remains#every other time we've featured cremains on the blog people were unintentionally selling#this time they're $20 lmao#people will slap a price on fucking anything#bones#tumblr culture#if you don't have homemade storebought is fine#finally some shitty thrifting
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John Oliver just did an episode on body donation, which was very well-reported as usual.
It cites some older news including this amazing series on body brokers by Reuters.
Some thoughts on anonymity being an issue:
It is shocking that there is no regulation on what it means to donate your body to "science," although, I'm not sure exactly who can say what that definition is or should be. Also, plenty of people would be happy to have their bodies used in a museum, but you CAN'T, because body donations are shuffled around and anonymized. We wouldn't have any issue with consent if we let people who WANT to be on display be on display.
When I read The Red Market, an amazing book about the trade in human body parts, it really highlighted the issues with mandated anonymity. WHY does a deceased heart, kidney, or blood donor need to be anonymous? That policy has led to horrific abuse of donors all over the world (egregious examples are given in China and India), living and dead, and the recipients have no idea because of that mandate. Mandated anonymity is a shield against regulation, public understanding, and accountability.
I wonder if people believe in anonymizing things because they think that makes the death not real. I've noticed people selling all sorts of human and animal remains with no description as to where they came from, and no one asks, and no one complains. I understand; sometimes some information is lost to time, or a business owner maybe can't take the time to verify the exact origins of things. Fine.
But take for example all these human fetuses for sale on Facebook. I'm not here to argue about that, although it's odd, and I understand both sides of the controversy regarding selling them. When I saw those posts, no one bats an eye.
Then when someone offered to sell her own aborted fetus (context: this person went in for an abortion but was told the fetus was dead anyway) people freaked out. In the same group where they're buying the fetuses of strangers. So...it's only ok to sell body parts when the person whose body it came from did not consent? That's our standard?
The same goes for animal body parts. "Hey, buy these dead rats!" Fine and dandy. "Buy these dead rats! Here is some context about their lives and/or deaths--" Disgusting! How dare you! Those were living things!
Death is disgusting and horrifying and I'm NOT saying that everyone has to think about it all the time or look at dead bodies or even understand it. What I am saying is that when we complain about transparency and enact policies that make it impossible to actually understand who these body parts are coming from, or to track them, that breeds an industry where abuse of consent is hard to avoid.
Lastly, the end of the Last Week Tonight show showed what happens when you let donors be known. It's beautiful.
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#destiel meme#destiel meme news#united states#us news#news#tw death#i guess?#human remains#tw corpse#that's so wild#skull#arizona#goodwill
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If anyone sees this garbage take around please feel free to share this Twitter thread.
“In 1000 years when archaeologists dig up your skeleton, they’ll know what sex you REALLY were!”
Bullshit.
#archaeology 🧵 (1/7)
Most burials will never be excavated by archaeologists. In the U.S., the policy is to leave burials alone, unless they are in imminent danger of destruction. (2/7)
The majority of burials that are excavated by archaeologists contain only partial remains, due to soil conditions or previous disturbance. In most such cases, no sex determination is possible (3/7)
Human remains are sexed on a scale, not a binary: male, probably male, indeterminate, probably female, female. A significant percentage of adult human skeletons have mixed or indeterminate traits. (4/7)
Sex is not gender, and archaeology is getting better about recognizing the colonial origins of the rigid sex binary. Many cultures historically have recognized more than 2 sexes or genders. (5/7)
In most cases, archaeologists are more concerned with the presence or absence of human remains than in determining sex characteristics. This is your preoccupation, not ours. (6/7)
In conclusion, your premise is based on a severely limited understanding of what archaeologists do. Stop trying to co-opt us into your transphobic, anti-science nonsense. (7/7)
It is also worth saying that what people 1000 years from now think about you based on your remains has no bearing on your life or who you are as a person. We are all here just trying to live and be happy. (8/7)
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The peruvian delivery bag mummy
#more pics of Juanita#im obsessed with the pictures of her in the bag theyre so so beautiful#this is basically why I have crawled to a stop in making art#nothing I could ever conceive of would be more interesting and beautiful than Juanita in the delivery bag#this world is amazing#my uploads#human remains#mummy
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[Ossuary in a Capuchin Church, Rome]
about 1875–1879
Unknown maker, Italian
Not currently on view
getty
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technoblade touring herculaneum and or pompeii
time for a tour yall
temple yup mhm
bone cave
who did this to you.
huh?
well hello there officer how are you doing- what? tresspassing? noo, you got the wrong guy-
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Catacombs of Paris
Explore:
#catacombs#paris catacombs#human remains#skull#paris#original photography#photography#cemetery#lensblr#photographers on tumblr#taphophile#taphophilia#tomb#wanderingjana
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Me: washing skeletons with a toothbrush
My environmental colleagues: oh cool can you tell something already?
Me: yeah it’s an older woman with worn teeth and arthritis.
Them: cool cool. What is this tiny bit of bone?
Also them: holding up the tiniest fragment from inside some dude’s skull
Me internally: “fuuuuuuu…..”
#I’m not a genius#physical anthropology#human remains#archaeology#stereotypes#history#indiana jones#archaeology problems#field archaeologist#archaeology meme
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~ Grauballe Man.
Culture/Period: Iron Age
Place of discovery: Nebelgaard Bog
Place of origin: Denmark
From the source: He was violently killed and placed in a watery grave in a small bog. Here he lay for thousands of years until his discovery in April 1952.
#ancient#history#museum#human#human remains#archaeology#Grauballe Man#iron age#bog#bog bodies#human sacrifice#prehistory#prehistoric
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The skull and stone tools from a 7,000-year-old man found in Germany years ago.
Photo Credit...Volker Minkus
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#thrifting#shiftythrifting#submission#which one of you graverobbing sinners donated the wrong box#tumblr culture#didi's evening shitposting#tw: death#skulls#bones#human remains#yes we have a human remains tag
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9,000-year-old Human Skeletons and Over 100,000 Artifacts Unearthed in Brazil
What started as a routine survey for a new apartment complex in Sao Luis, Brazil, turned into a jaw-dropping archaeological extravaganza, revealing 43 human skeletons and over 100,000 artifacts!
#skull#skeleton#human remains#artifact#Brazil#Isotopic analysis#human settlement#pottery#ancient#history#ancient origins
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A brief history of
✨The Casts of Pompeii✨
With thanks to Dr Sophie Hay (@pompei79 on Twitter)
#pompeii#pompei#archaeology#human remains#casts#casts of pompeii#archaeological illustration#history#roman history
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Sometimes I pause and reflect on the fact that my job has made me the kind of morbid weirdo who has favorite human bones.
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Dear early archaeologists,
Human remains are not your property. I am fully aware that the governments under which you attained the excavation material did not exercise their right to stop you from removing said remains.
However, any desecration of the individual’s remains, (such as some who have permanently arranged them in a manner for display like pouring resin over the remains, retained their bones for purposes other than scientific analysis, or any purposeful ignorance of the direct wishes of their modern ancestors) is proof of not only your unnecessary abandonment of the personhood of these ancient peoples, your disregard for those who are simply unlike you in any manner, and, finally, your carelessness for their culture in which you seem to have forgotten you have dedicated your time and likely quite a lot of your own money to.
Human remains as well as the material culture of these people is not yours to deserve, obtain, or hoard.
I understand that what you did was legal. In your eyes, it may have even been the most moral thing to do to preserve a person’s memory. However, there is no excuse to permit such irreversible behavior. Archaeology is a destructive science. You must understand that your worldview is not the collective goal of the world.
Remember the humanity of those from whom you seek to learn.
#dear early archaeologists#archaeology#history#writing letters#morality#letters to dead people#life as a modern archaeologist#we have to deal with this crap#excavation#ethics#respect the dead#human remains
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