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Wouldn’t that crush the bones? Also if that were the case wouldn’t they be more spread out?
by jhloa2 7y ago
Wouldn’t that crush the bones? Also if that were the case wouldn’t they be more spread out?
- lostlogin 7y agoMany fractures are there according to the article - though I’m unsure if a post mortem fracture can be distinguished from one that happened just prior to death in a skeleton hundreds of years old.
- dm3730 7y ago> a post mortem fracture can be distinguished from one that happened just prior to death My understanding is that ante mortem and post mortem fractures can be distinguished by bone marrow oedema. Presumably, if the post is an extremely long period and there's no bone marrow present, then there would be other substantially different fracture patterns.
- EdwardDiego 7y ago> Wouldn’t that crush the bones? Otzi wasn't overly crushed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ötzi#/media/File:OetzitheIceman-glacier-199109a.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ötzi#/media/File:OetzitheIcema... I imagine it'd depend on the glacier, but yeah.
- simonh 7y agoOtzi's body wasn't moved by the ice. He was just frozen in place, then thawed.
- datenhorst 7y agoIn the wikipedia article it actually says that there is a theory that his body was placed on a nearby burial mound and moved by the ice to the location were he was found but: > While archaeobotanist Klaus Oeggl of the University of Innsbruck agrees that the natural process described probably caused the body to move from the ridge that includes the stone formation, he pointed out that the paper provided no compelling evidence to demonstrate that the scattered stones constituted a burial platform