Yes, I'm with Vern -- they're horse petrosals. Are they very small, Simon?
Could be from a donkey or pony, maybe that's what's throwing you off.
Cheers -- Dr. Deb
> Hi Simon,
> why do you think that they don't match with Equus ? Seems to me it is
> almost certainly (considering determinations from a photo) Equus.
> Cheers,
> Vern
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> De : Analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites
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> Objet : [ZOOARCH] Temporal-Bone-Identification
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> Dear Zooarchaeologists,
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> A colleague here at the Lisbon Natural History Museum asks if anyone has
> any idea who the original owners of these two temporal bones could have
> been been.
> They are almost certainly from the same animal and are probably from the
> 20th century - i.e., modern, and were found in a collection of human
> temporal bones that belonged to a medical researcher active in the 1950s -
> 1970s.
> I have tried Bos and Equus, but they do not seem to match.
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> https://imgur.com/AFLki6Y
> https://imgur.com/m3ovbiD
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> https://imgur.com/pcrwhNm
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> https://imgur.com/Cfs6gwI
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> Any clues?
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> With thanks,
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> Simon Davis
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