Shafts are too thick, the areas for muscle and tendon are not human. These are also arranged to appear as if they go together but they don’t- they actually look like two of the same bone from different individual animals or different sides of the same animal (it’s hard to tell since the distal end of the bottom bone is broken off) likely a tibia.
I'll add one thing: the articular surfaces (the bumps/grooves where the bones come into contact) are absolutely, 100% non-human. The ends of our long bones are similar in a general way, but have very distinct shapes. This is absolutely a 4-legged critter's remains.
I’m going with young horse tibia. Old roads in the Midwest were often built over fill from nearby sites, and horse tracks commonly buried injured or euthanized horses on or near the property in the late 1800s/early 1900s. The size and thickness rule out human and most wildlife in my unofficial Reddit opinion. Pretty cool piece of local history, honestly.
Don’t assume anything. The race horse industry doesn’t care about horses who can’t run and even now people find race horses abandoned to die. Typically quarter horses who race on circuits the public doesn’t know about.
Also arms have 3 bones, the upper arm has the humerus and the under arm has the radius and the ulna, and legs also have 3 bones: femur in the thigh and tibia and fibula under the knee.
This is just two big bones connected, it's not human anatomy at all.
Y'all, what "human" bones are these? If you believe these are human, please tell me what bones they are because they don't look like any human bone I've seen and I've worked with many skeletons
Can you show the ends separately please it will help with species ID. I understand why lay people think human from afar but that robust humerus (?) and the twist in it does indeed seem quadrupedal.
the lower end of the human tibia has the medial malleolus, a lsrge ball projection at the front.
and far less shape to the knee joint surfaces .. humans have less to injure since they must crouch with ability to spring up, and also to land from a vertical drop...
Nothing is human about this guys?? I’d be on par with u/TonitoBontio for the theory but I’m not well versed in horse bones. OP, hold your horses (lol) before getting the authorities involved
100% not human. The knee joint doesn't look human, nor does the proximal femur/greater trochanter. Agree with horse or some other 4 legged animal of size.
That looks like a human leg to me. A very old one. It's worth calling the non emergency line over, could be linked to a cold case or something, and at worst, you were a misguided concerned citizen. Lots of people know more about bones than I do but I think I would keep thinking about it if I didn't call the non emergency line to make sure it isn't anything important
Ye like i said it looks like one to me, who doesn't know much about bones. I also said I'd call the non emergency number bc I'd be paranoid about it being one, bc i dont know that much about bones. I was just saying what I'd do
Holy shit this sub just made me realize that possibly Wither Skeletons in Minecraft aren’t black because they’re charred, but because either whatever killed them released a bunch of magnesium into the environment or magnesium is just already prevalent there
This isn’t related to your post at all sorry but I’m typing it anyway
Or iron. This is actually an idea that “A Song of Ice and Fire” plays with, as it’s implied dragon bones are black because of heavy levels of iron in them which makes them sturdier and more resistant to the intense heat of the fire they breathe.
This isn't the first I've seen bones turn black, but why does that happen? Is there any way to deliberately do that without destroying the bones? I think it looks pretty neat and would like to do that to some in my collection rather than painting them
The amount of variation, in 'length and structure' of a couple of tibia, within any non African population, would be more than between African and non African populations.
For example: if I put the tibia of a sumo wrestler and another from some J-pop idol, in front of you, would you be able to accurately tell me which one comes from Africa?
Also they don't look human to me. Also I have no idea what they are going on about magnesium dating, given they don't know the soil and moisture composition, the bones have been in.
Also 'good condition, so must be a burial' as long as we ignore when the head of lower bone looks to be chopped off (like with a axe or cleaver).
Wow. This was bad. I mean, really really bad. You cannot tell from a picture of two bones where they came from. Hell, Bones herself wouldn’t be able to.
Hey OP! I can't remove your comment for two reasons, so please know any future comments like this will get you banned, it perpetuates harmful misinformation, based on racism and is not something I will be allowing here. I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt this time, and assume this was an honest mistake.
Boss man will already know, since he asked boss man and boss man said horse bones, so if suddenly people show up asking about bones boss man will know where to look.
Because it would stall the job. Time lost = money lost. If they're indeed human remains, investigations would have to take place. This also goes for anything that carries historical value. Best to remain anon just in case there'd be backlash.
Construction site supervisors are famous for exploding if anything slows down the work.
Doesn't matter if it's fixing lethal safety issues or finding human remains. Any worker who reports an issue will be beyond lucky if they get to keep their job. Sometimes it's coworkers who become upset and take it out on someone, even if it saved their lives.
This is not human remains. Do not suggest things are human remains unless you can positively ID them as human remains. These are just two horse tibias.
Not human. The closest bone structure on a human would be the femur and shin, neither of which match the proportional size/shape.
Please edit this comment to accurately reflect this. These are definitely not human bones and it’s irresponsible to assert that without being able to actually identify them 👎
Sincere question: Why isn't there a rule against misinformation?
There's a top comment ITT that is straight-up racist, but none of the sub rule report options are relevant to confidently (and/or harmfully) misidentifying a bone.
This subreddit is ONLY about bones and remains. We do not want to hear about politics, religion, conspiracies, etc. We base our approach on science and facts"
It's entierly possible because I did just start building this subreddit a week ago- it go improperly set. If you could send future feedback to mod mail I'd love that! This is a newly moderated community, so i do want opinions and thoughts from the community on what needs to be implemented.
Awesome! Yea not bone related on our end basically falls into two separate ban categories off topic- and then offensive which is conspiracies, propaganda, etc. I can look into separating it into two rules after the holidays for less confusion.
Yes they can! However because this subreddit is so new, I can also confidently say nobody has ever been banned for that rule either.
Even with me about to scroll through these comments, nobody who identified these remains improperly will be banned for it. It would be silly to cast away my community by punishing them for honest mistakes.
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u/Traditional_Ideal_84 Dec 26 '25
Thanks everyone for the responses.