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MajorGeneralInternet t1_itc7apm wrote

Amazing that these bones used to be people with unique identities and stories, but they will never be fully understood because writing wasn't invented yet.

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Quantentheorie t1_itcd5w0 wrote

Replying to MajorGeneralInternet (#178,627)

this is a thought that has crossed my mind a couple of times seeing full roman skeletons presented in a museum; laid out under glas in their sarcophagus to just... look at.

Not that I personally would mind if it were mine. But its a weird conflict because the reason this is "fine" is that they're just bones, not people, their identities and in any real way something intimate and private - but the only real reason we display old skeletons like this (which are completely ordinary modern human skeletons in most regards) is also because we're fascinated and interested in the fact that this used to be a person that walked, talked and had a life.

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gmorf33 t1_itcj7k3 wrote

Replying to MajorGeneralInternet (#178,627)

Makes sense why early writing could have been seen as magic. Capturing memories, ideas, and knowledge into something physical that can be shared and passed down. I wonder, if similar to photographs which were looked at with a lot of superstition, if early writing/runes had this same aura.

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jackedtradie t1_itckfon wrote

Replying to ecm1413 (#179,095)

Blows my mind. The billions of people that lived before us. Gone like dust in the wind. They have families, problems, struggles, successes, thoughts and ideas, happy times and sad times. They were the centre of their own world for a second in this universe, then gone and forgotten

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Oblivisteam t1_itcmbdx wrote

Replying to jackedtradie (#179,619)

The way I always reconcile with that thought is that we live on through the interactions and imprints we leave upon others. Your face and your name may be forgotten, though it could be remembered by history somehow, but those whose lives you touched will echo forward endlessly. It's all we can do to make sure it's a calm ripple and not a violent riptide.

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drchippy18 t1_itcn2we wrote

Is there a metal band called Bog Bones? If not, there should be.

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berry90 t1_itcprnq wrote

Replying to Quantentheorie (#179,126)

I remember going to a museum when I was younger where they had a skeleton on display. They had a little video display with an actor portraying the skeleton.

It was interesting because it seems that the person died from a head injury. It could have been an assault, it could have been a fall. We'll never know. Just another human story lost to time, kind of. We have the body, and we can make assumptions from the burial, but we'll never really know.

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25hourenergy t1_itcwo9h wrote

Replying to gabriel1313 (#180,339)

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow

of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath

borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how

abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at

it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know

not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your

gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,

that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one

now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?

Now get you to my lady’s chamber, and tell her, let

her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must

come; make her laugh at that.

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skyblueandblack t1_itd4vjl wrote

Replying to berry90 (#180,013)

At the La Brea Tar Pits, there's a display case with the bones of a woman that was discovered there. It's a holographic display, though, so as you move past it, you see her how she might have looked thousands of years ago.

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Ok_Pressure1131 t1_itd5459 wrote

“Hazelnuts were a big attraction in the area because Mesolithic people could gather and roast them…”

10,000 years later, we enjoy hazelnuts in Nutella. Human progress!

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David_bowman_starman t1_itdbohs wrote

Replying to gmorf33 (#179,518)

Currently we think that writing arose more as just a slow evolution from counting, as the symbols for amounts became more streamlined and abstract over time, eventually turning into a full written alphabet. But it definitely was reserved for only an elite few for a long time, even if more just for accounting purposes.

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EnkiduOdinson t1_itdrxnc wrote

Replying to MajorGeneralInternet (#178,627)

I visited the Neues Museum in Berlin yesterday where they had the mummies of three girls and a quote by one of the researchers there saying something like „you have to realize that these were once people like us with hopes and dreams“.

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ecm1413 t1_ite2iq7 wrote

Replying to RubySapphireGarnet (#182,403)

I totally agree. I've thought about that before and definitely take solace knowing we all carry on through our DNA. It's cool when someone makes a (good) impact on history and gets to live on through history too.

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silverfang789 t1_ite4kst wrote

That's such a cool find. Cremating bodies, roasting Hazel nuts and spearing fish.

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BernadetteSanderson t1_ite6oie wrote

If there was anything I could tell someone from 15,000 years ago it would be thank you. Thank you for fighting to stay alive, to pass your genes, to ensure we could all be here to enjoy a comfortable life.

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Captainzabu t1_itexjbk wrote

What's a "Human bog", and how many of its bones did they discover?

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EagleEyeStx t1_itfh0o8 wrote

I hadn't realized bog bones was a category in and of itself but looks like I was wrong lol

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FunkrusherPlus t1_itfjxpy wrote

Replying to berry90 (#180,013)

There are ways forensic anthropologists and osteologists can determine cause of death by studying other details of the skeleton. Even old ancient ones.

ie. If there’s an injury on the skull and also damaged bones in the arms and hands, one can determine that the person was assaulted and died. If there’s an injury on the skull and fractured spine but no signs of struggle it’s possible the person died falling off a horse. These are overly simplified examples — the experts can take a million things into account just by studying the bones and come to solid conclusions with evidence to back it up.

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pat_micucci t1_itfm3ot wrote

Dammit I only clicked because I really wanted to know what the hell human “dog bones” were.

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rocky5q t1_itfoh93 wrote

Life may have many forms . We know it well .

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Quantentheorie t1_itfuufs wrote

Replying to the_YellowRanger (#187,123)

without the rules of the reincarnation specifically outfitting you with that feature, I don't see how. Its not like we're usually able to identify any part of our body by any means other than our known senses.

Heck, I've had a limb fall asleep, then wondered who's f*ing arm this is often enough to know I can fail to recognise my own body part while its still attached to me.

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