Looks to me like the paramastoid process broken off of either a bison or
perhaps a horse skull. -- Dr. Deb
> Hello zooarchs.
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> Anyone up for a challenge?
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> How about a 3cm fragment from a Paleoindian bison kill in Wyoming?
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> I gave up on it after going back to it several times over the course of
> several days.
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> Link to hi-res image:
> http://24.media.tumblr.com/e5a7966e6d06bd1bcccedc3675969aab/tumblr_mwwidnIX3
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> I just know I'm going to feel like an idiot whenever I figure it out. It
> looks like it should be easy to identify..
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> It's bulky, and then it goes flat. I tried to refit it to the many other
> fragments, but no go.
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> Context: Two adult bison femora, one juvenile? bison femur, one juvenile
> bison or medium mammal longbone, adult bison teeth, adult bison lumbar
> transverse process, bison second phalanx and first phalanx.
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> I keep thinking it's part of that lumbar vertebra, but I can't fit it at
> all. This area of the assemblage was completely fragmented - it was a
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> heap basically, and most things are pretty friable.
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> Anyway, let me know if you have any ideas. Thanks!
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> Department of Anthropology
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> University of Wyoming
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