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aerial-jace · 2 years ago

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There’s a bit of a difference between skeletons being in such poor condition that archeologists cannot tell the sex, and the fact that when skeletons are in good condition sex is easily observable. I fucking despair that you’re about to graduate and you cannot tell the difference between the two circumstances

Why yes, I can tell the difference. We were talking, afterall, about a hypothetical future in which taphonomic processes and just general decay of the living matter in the bone tissue is going to take place! Did you even think before sending in this ask? You're almost as dumb as the person who said coffins exist now implying they didn't in the past.

#to be completely fair to you #I've excavated in the maya area and most burials are directly on the ground which because the ground is acidic does accelerate the process #coffins and funerary urns and the like do help but decay processes aren't entirely averted #so yeah try harder #I'm only humoring you because I went to see Wakanda Forever today #and I came out of the cinema pleasantly surprised so I'm in a good mood #completely off topic but I was so relieved that movie didn't pull an ancient aliens #it would've been so easy to make the villains atlanteans or some shit #but they didn't! it was a postclassic yucatec kingdom that descended into the water rather than emerge from it!#hollywood be hollywood and marvel be marvel #but it was much better than I expected!

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