Anyone recognize these? I think they are from a large shark or other cartilaginous fish. Recovered from a gill net in 12 m of water. They are completely hollow, with a wall thickness of ~3 mm. The composition of the wall is distinctly not bone.
The Society of Ethnobiology invites papers for our 2012 conference "Conservation and Communities" to be held April 11–14, 2012 at the Denver Botanic Gardens in Colorado. This year's conference theme explores the importance and power of linking…
Guide to the curation of archaeozoological collections : proceedings of the Curation Workshop held at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., in conjunction with the International Council of Archaeozoology Sixth International Conference (shared…
In the report on the cattle remains from Ferry Fryston, Yorkshire, two aspects of particular relevance to methods for studying age at death from cattle teeth were published. Differences in the morphology and size of first and second molars are…
I am uploading a picture of the other jaw from the same dog that I showed you yesterday.
The canine is broken, and part of the dentine shows a darker colour. I am not a very good photoprapher, but I hope you can see what I mean. Might this be due…
Dear all,
I am currently studying an early medieval assemblage from a site near Madrid (Spain) and I have just found the skeleton of a dog whose lower canines appear to be smoothed down (artificially I mean, not natural wear). I was wondering if any…
