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the scaffolding that outlives you, then becomes the only proof you existed
means The rigid structural parts of a vertebrate skeleton, or by extension the underlying framework or core elements of anything.
from From Old English 'bān,' the same word that gives German 'Bein' (now 'leg') and the older Germanic sense of 'bone.' English kept 'bone' for the skeleton and let cousins drift — a reminder that the same root can branch into a whole limb of meanings. The plural 'bones' has long carried extra weight: dice were once carved from bone, hence 'rolling the bones,' and 'feeling it in your bones' makes the skeleton the seat of deep certainty.
- living tissue
- Bones rebuild themselves completely every ten years
- strength
- Ounce for ounce, stronger than steel
- hidden lab
- Marrow produces billions of blood cells daily
- count drop
- Babies have 300 bones; adults keep 206
- smallest
- The ear's stapes is rice-grain sized
lucy skeleton — 3.2 million year old hominin fossil found in ethiopia, 40% complete
otzi the iceman — 5,300 year old mummified remains discovered in alpine glacier between austria and italy
sutton hoo ship burial — 7th century anglo-saxon king's skeleton and treasures excavated in suffolk, england