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To: SarahW
So Ok, give me a source that says I am all wet, in whatever particular of my long posts you are picking on. Why is it others can ask me to find sources, but you can just say that I am wrong? Show me some authority that disputes a fact that I give.
32 posted on 06/10/2002 12:34:02 PM PDT by crystalk
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To: crystalk
FWIW, the pelvis is not a solid, fused bone. It's made up of three bones (in an adult). There is the triangle part in the middle (the sacrum) and the two bones on either side. These side parts are made up of three bones that fuse around age 15 (pubis, ischium, and ilium) When all the soft tissues are all gone, it falls into three parts unless there has been some bony fusion (which incidentally, I have because of a rheumatic desease). The removal of soft tissues is *much more rapid* in an unburied corpse exposed to the elements, carnivores and insects. An animal may hasten detachment of one side of the pelvis, and it isn't unusual in a setting such as Chandra's in Rock creek park. The bones that are missing and the bones that were displaced are not red flags of the corpse having been hacked up.

Here are some terms for you to google on: Taphonomy; forensic anthroplogy;sacrum;innominates

A for-public consumption site you might find interesting is here

To cast away your peculiar ideas about her head having been chopped off or needing some kind of "thrown corpse" scenario to be separated from her body, read here And critters in the park are quite capable of stealing away with her long bones. There are canids and rodents in the park quite capable of moving her femur and shin away to gnaw on the ends. Her shinbone had the ends gnawed off, and there are no cut marks to indicate it was cut off.

58 posted on 06/10/2002 4:55:43 PM PDT by SarahW
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