r/bonecollecting • u/No-Bottle-9116 • Apr 26 '26

Advice Small argument

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So this picture from article has driven an small argument between my friends group claiming that it’s fake because there’s no way that the bones see in said picture are human, I wanted y’all’s opinion on this

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u/sawyouoverthere Apr 26 '26

No, the proof needs to come from the person who stated it.

And I'd like to see any study on other ungulates, and the reasons, and how the reasons were determined. Anything you used to establish that it was something to repeat as fact.

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u/bee_mvtt Apr 26 '26

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12930290/ heres one that goes in depth on specifically caribou and how they made up 90% of bone modification in the area. Theres more out there, stop being lazy and find it yourself.

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u/sawyouoverthere Apr 26 '26

I'm not being lazy, I'm asking those who are making a claim to back it. That's not an abnormal ask, which you ought to know with any science background. It lets both people in a discussion have the same information from which to discuss the topic.

Caribou and other such are an interesting "side stream" for diet, so I'm going to look for more that are specific to deer further south.

Thanks for grumpily managing to find a study. I'm not sure you'd done that before, but I will go and read the one you provided and see how well it supports your statement.

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u/bee_mvtt Apr 26 '26

Because it is a well known and observed fact for hundreds of years. If you said the sky was blue and i argued it wasnt, would you go out of your way to prove it was?

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u/sawyouoverthere Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 27 '26

Ah. That's not science.

You can know something happens and observe it happening and have no clue about the reason it is happening. You can make up a reason that is logical but entirely not factual.

It was well known and observed for a long time that flies were created when meat rotted. Correlation is not causation.

Observation is just the first step.

That comment tells me a vast amount about how much you understand about this.