If a person were a time traveler how might that show up in their skeleton, eg in the isotopic analysis of their teeth?
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If a person were a time traveler how might that show up in their skeleton, eg in the isotopic analysis of their teeth?
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If a person were a time traveler how might that show up in their skeleton, eg in the isotopic analysis of their teeth?
@futurebird excellent question!
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If a person were a time traveler how might that show up in their skeleton, eg in the isotopic analysis of their teeth?
@futurebird telomeres perhaps
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If a person were a time traveler how might that show up in their skeleton, eg in the isotopic analysis of their teeth?
@futurebird microplastics
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@futurebird microplastics
@futurebird futuristic robot parts
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If a person were a time traveler how might that show up in their skeleton, eg in the isotopic analysis of their teeth?
@futurebird c14? contaminant concentration like plastics, PFAS?
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If a person were a time traveler how might that show up in their skeleton, eg in the isotopic analysis of their teeth?
@futurebird we would normally have classified this 450-year-old exemplar from the Elizabethan period, but for the slappin grillz
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If a person were a time traveler how might that show up in their skeleton, eg in the isotopic analysis of their teeth?
Past to now, or now to past? How long since they traveled?
Pre-atom-bomb metal is distinguishable now. Maybe there’s enough to test in tisdue? post-ubiquitous-metals bones might be distinguishable in the past.
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@futurebird futuristic robot parts
Nice veneers.
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If a person were a time traveler how might that show up in their skeleton, eg in the isotopic analysis of their teeth?
@futurebird Unusual combinations of metals in the bones. Greater concentrations of heavy metals and petrochemicals than expected for 21st C humans in time travellers from the future, lower concentrations in those from the past.
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If a person were a time traveler how might that show up in their skeleton, eg in the isotopic analysis of their teeth?
@futurebird Individuals who lived between 1945 and about now have greater carbon-14 levels in their bodies (from the atmospheric nuclear detonations from 1945 to 1963) than anyone who lived before.
But unless more nuclear bombs get detonated, new babies born will soon have no more in them than people who died before 1945.
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If a person were a time traveler how might that show up in their skeleton, eg in the isotopic analysis of their teeth?
I assume you already know about the Baby Tooth Survey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Tooth_Survey .
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I assume you already know about the Baby Tooth Survey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Tooth_Survey .
I did not!
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If a person were a time traveler how might that show up in their skeleton, eg in the isotopic analysis of their teeth?
@futurebird Chemicals based on diet? Size of person (good nutrition, bigger). We also absorb what’s in the air and water.
How do we know what they ate?
The foods eaten by our ancestors can tell us a lot about their lifestyles and the environments in which they lived. Food has also played a major role in human evolution, particularly when meat became a significant part of the human diet about two million years ago.
The Australian Museum (australian.museum)
Carbon dating: https://www.futurelearn.com/info/courses/skeletal-analysis/0/steps/59520
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I did not!
Apparently; showing JFK baby teeth laced with strontium-90 was persuasive in getting the test ban treaties through.
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@futurebird Chemicals based on diet? Size of person (good nutrition, bigger). We also absorb what’s in the air and water.
How do we know what they ate?
The foods eaten by our ancestors can tell us a lot about their lifestyles and the environments in which they lived. Food has also played a major role in human evolution, particularly when meat became a significant part of the human diet about two million years ago.
The Australian Museum (australian.museum)
Carbon dating: https://www.futurelearn.com/info/courses/skeletal-analysis/0/steps/59520
The bones carbon date to 4k years ago, but the dental work is modern. The plaque contains DNA from variants of crops no longer commonly grown.
The reconstructive surgery on the knee is made of 3D printed bone, beautiful work, someday we might do something like that.
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If a person were a time traveler how might that show up in their skeleton, eg in the isotopic analysis of their teeth?
@futurebird they probably just hum constantly at a very low frequency
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If a person were a time traveler how might that show up in their skeleton, eg in the isotopic analysis of their teeth?
@futurebird their immune system might look quite interesting indeed.
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If a person were a time traveler how might that show up in their skeleton, eg in the isotopic analysis of their teeth?
@futurebird depends how much shrimp is in their diet
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@futurebird depends how much shrimp is in their diet
Why shrimp? Did people eat more once?
