Scott Kirkland
@scottakirkland.bsky.social
Anthropologist, morphologist, educator, leftist, weirdo.
Purveyor of Inanimate Curiosities.
Purveyor of Inanimate Curiosities.
Archaeology never really goes away. But honestly. This little guy is one of my favorite things I’ve ever found. Buried under brink in my tiny Philly row home “back yard”.
April 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Archaeology never really goes away. But honestly. This little guy is one of my favorite things I’ve ever found. Buried under brink in my tiny Philly row home “back yard”.
As an anthropologist I spent so many years working with human remains. The last 10 or so in Philly. The amount we have learned from physical collections is immense, but I am left with the thought “At what cost?” How do we justify collections after the repeated harm to descendent communities?
More MOVE remains? Activist shows new evidence, says Penn curator lied
Newly surfaced photos show Janet Monge at Penn Museum in 2014 with remains of two children, not one, advocates say.
billypenn.com
December 18, 2023 at 8:04 PM
As an anthropologist I spent so many years working with human remains. The last 10 or so in Philly. The amount we have learned from physical collections is immense, but I am left with the thought “At what cost?” How do we justify collections after the repeated harm to descendent communities?
I found this humerus. As an anthropologist, I loved looking at the similarities in bones across our ancestors. This has since expanded into a love of the functional morphology of the humeri across taxa. Here is a healed fracture of an adult cougar. #comparativeanatomy #bones
December 14, 2023 at 9:11 PM
I found this humerus. As an anthropologist, I loved looking at the similarities in bones across our ancestors. This has since expanded into a love of the functional morphology of the humeri across taxa. Here is a healed fracture of an adult cougar. #comparativeanatomy #bones