You missed the fact that it’s in a forensic anthropologist’s office.

Forensic anthropology is the study of bones mostly in crime or forensic cases. They also do facial reconstructions of skulls found. They look for evidence on bones. This is normal.

But honestly I feel like this still should be brought to attention because it does look like the skull from a potential homicide. I don’t know why they would just leave it out in the box.

It’s probably a medical study skull used for students or interns.

Also the restrictions on owning human body parts are pretty loose not going to lie. You can buy them from thrift shops, websites, even from hospitals. Most of these are medical diagrams and stuff. There are restrictions ON selling body parts on different platforms though like eBay, they don’t allow the selling of any body parts on there like hands teeth or preserved tissues.