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Lik the bone (lemmy.world)

Tumblr thread, one user says that archeologists identify human remains by taste. A second user points out that this is not true, bone is identified as not a normal rock by touching it to your tongue and seeing if it sticks. If it does then bone.

Third user shares a poem they wrote: mai nam is jane and wen i dig i fynde some roks both smol and big i put my tung upon the stone for science yes i lik the bone

4th user is an archeologist and is crying laughing with a bunch of other archeologists and they're going to have shirts made with the poem.

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[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 17 points 19 hours ago

Not just archies, like another commentator points out, but Geo's and pedologists too

In soil science we sometimes put soil in our mouth to determine between silt and clay or silt and fine sand

[-] affenlehrer@feddit.org 4 points 16 hours ago
[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 hours ago

I suppose, but I also smell subsoil for the presence of hydrocarbons, soo...

[-] marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 15 hours ago

They ate a lot of dirt as kids, built up their immune system

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