Nicholas,
it looks very like a juvenile pig fibula, (based on comparing it to my
reference material).
All the best,
Don.
On 13 July 2015 at 10:47, Nicholas Overton
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> Dear Zooarchaeologists,
>
> I hoped i could appeal to your collective wisdom in helping me to identify a troublesome specimen in an assemblage. It originates from a lake deposit in a 19th century park in England, which has otherwise not thrown up any unusual or unexpected species. To me, the specimen exhibits many characteristics of a clavicle, but does not match with any species i have checked it against, including human. The more robust end (to the right in photo 2) indicates an unfused epiphysis.
>
> http://zooarchaeology.ning.com/photo/albums/mystery-specimen
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated-i have a nagging feeling i am missing something quite obvious. Regards,
>
> Nick Overton BA MA PhD
>
> Post-Doctoral Researcher, Minerals@Manchester
>
> Mansfield Cooper Room 3.17
> School of Arts, Histories and Cultures,
> University of Manchester,
> Mansfield Cooper Building,
> Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL
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> http://manchester-uk.academia.edu/NickOverton
> http://whitworthparklife.wordpress.com/
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>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Angela Perri [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 07 July 2015 10:03
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [ZOOARCH] dire wolf PDF
>
> Dear ZOOARCHers,
>
> Does anyone happen to have a PDF copy of the following thesis? I cant
> seem to track one down anywhere. Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Kisko, L. M. 1967: A consideration of the dire wolves from the
> New World Pleistocene with a statistical study of their metapodials.
> Unpublished M.A. thesis. University of Toronto, Toronto,
> Ontario, Canada. 73 pp.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Angela
> __________________________________________
>
> Angela Perri
> Postdoctoral Fellow
> Department of Human Evolution
> Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
> Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig, Germany
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