Dear Zooarchers,

please help me with identifying these 3 bird bones (two humeri and one tarsometatarsus). They were excavated in Southwestern Kazakhstan, at the foot of the Tien-Shan mountains, and date to the Iron Age. Now it's a pretty dry area but there is an ancient watercourse near the site.

As I'm not a bird specialist and have practically zero experience with the Central Asian avifauna, I'd be happy to get some advice from those more experienced in the subject.

http://alexandriaarchive.org/bonecommons/items/show/1922

http://alexandriaarchive.org/bonecommons/items/show/1923

http://alexandriaarchive.org/bonecommons/items/show/1924

All ideas and comments are welcome, thanks in advance!

best,
Kyra Lyublyanovics

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Kyra Lyublyanovics

zooarchaeologist

Central European University, Department of Medieval Studies

1051 Budapest

Nádor u. 9