oh it’s the episode of criminal minds featuring the worlds most inaccurate osteology assessments and me trying not to tear my hair out.
- Tagged
- ANYWAY
- exact depth of burial
- it's a BONE it's always HARD unless there's some kind of disease process at work
- shade or sun etc
- that is not a valid method to assess age 'hardening of the sternum' what the fuck does that even mean
- that's not how you make a sex estimate from the pelvis the width will tell you nothinggggg
- the point being this is not how osteology or forensic anthropology WORKS
- to tell how long they've been buried you'd need to know soil composition weather patterns
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