• Question: how many broken/moldy bones have u seen whilst working as a scientist

    Asked by anon-274334 to Amy, Amy on 16 Dec 2020.
    • Photo: Amy Rattenbury

      Amy Rattenbury answered on 16 Dec 2020:

      I haven’t seen any mouldy bones but lots of broken ones. Sometimes they have been broken when the person was alive and then the bone has healed again, sometimes they have been broken after the person died because they have been walked over (like by animals) or damaged over time. Then we have to try and put the bones back together again so that we can study them.

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