Jen,
Being on a cetacean roll (having just identified a complete upside gray
whale skull - previously called the Tecolutla Monster, Mexico) I thought I
would return to your bit. Hmmmm, it is definately cetacean - either part
of the mandible, skull or a rib - the only big bits in most whales that
look like that. Mandibles are often extremely dense (and preferentially
used for bone working by folk such as the Makah), ribs are very spongy and
skull fragments a bit more like your example. Whatever it is it comes from
a largish cetacean, and it looks like its been chopped to me - from a photo
that the best I can do.
Does that help at all?
jacqui
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