kaijutegu:kaijutegu:In addition to teaching this summer, I’m half of a team working to establish a t
kaijutegu:kaijutegu:In addition to teaching this summer, I’m half of a team working to establish a teaching collection for zooarchaeology at my university. This is TC-0001, an assemblage of subadult turkey bones.Wanna guess how we got ‘em?It was, in fact, Thanksgiving! About eight years ago or so.It was an extra credit project for students, back when the prof I’m working with was bright eyed and sparkling and had no idea how bad student comprehension when it comes to instructions is.He gave them an extra credit assignment to clean the bones from their Thanksgiving carcasses. Gave them all kinds of instructions on how to clean ‘em…which of coursethey did not followSo the kids come back from Thanksgiving break and hand him these bags of carcass and they don’t smell too bad, so he checks ‘em off and they get their extra credit.But then the end of the semester happens, as semester ends tend to, and as it’s finishing up, the box of turkey bones (which have all been bagged in plastic grocery store bags at this point) gets shoved into a TA office and forgotten… until after Christmas break.I don’t know if that TA office was ever used again. -- source link
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