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Dear Marta, we found a distal part of a camelid metapodial at Rome in the area of Templum Pacis. This forum was constructed under Vespasian in 70 AD, but the bone is dated to 420-600 AD (calibrated at 95,4%) or 430-540 AD (calibrated at 68,2%) by radiocarbon analysis. The bone is worked: ancient people sawed it and maybe used the diaphysis for making a tool. These data will be published next spring on: De Grossi Mazzorin J., in press, Camelli nell'antichità: le presenze in Italia, LXXX compleanno di A. Riedel, Preistoria Alpina, De Grossi Mazzorin J., Minniti C., Rea R., in press, De ossibus in anphitheatro Flavio effossis: 110 anni dopo i rinvenimenti di Francesco Luzj, in Atti del 4° Convegno Nazionale di Archeozoologia, Pordenone 13-15 novembre 2003, G. Malerba e P. Visentini (a cura di), Quaderni del Museo Archeologico del Friuli Occidentale, 6. If you want, we are very glad send a photo of this bone to you! Sincerely, Jacopo De Grossi Mazzorin, Claudia Minniti ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jacopo De Grossi Mazzorin Claudia Minniti Dip. Beni Culturali Università di Lecce via D. Birago, 64 73100 Lecce (Italy) -----Messaggio originale----- Da: Analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites [mailto:[log in to unmask]]Per conto di Marta Moreno Inviato: venerdì 3 febbraio 2006 16.28 A: [log in to unmask] Oggetto: [ZOOARCH] worked camel bones Dear Zooarchs, I would like to know if anybody has ever found any archaeological worked camel bones. Ethnographical records are equally welcome! Thank you very much, Marta Dra. Marta Moreno García Laboratório de Arqueozoologia Instituto Português de Arqueologia Av da Índia 136 1300-300 Lisboa -Portugal- tel: 00-351-21-361-65-57 fax: 00-351-21-361-65-59 e-mail: [log in to unmask]