Dear Allison,

It does look like a tooth fragment to me. How about a small herbivore hypoconulid?

Best

Simon Davis

Perhaps direct links to the images will help?

1) http://api.ning.com/files/cCBEHEx*jFd0*dYFgcycVIbNcx9T*h9tywonBdQMC4PGqXeZXYutukpubG66M-3zErnrfzTAvQ3wBFKAqzeohW87QZuBgQMg/IMG_0011.jpg?width=450&height=600

2) http://api.ning.com/files/cCBEHEx*jFeUCU-eH30eH0j8AL2x4SxbBVjc3A8iiTJXr*EBSe0cfBZpC1Czdpceqj1z01hzplLBkY1ZsbG33aEH42APMPZK/IMG_0013.jpg?width=450&height=600

3) http://api.ning.com/files/cCBEHEx*jFflwHZyvrgxIoKyNxSZY4CeYW4Tryk541yc6*73I-MrDgll0sOYe-uaVdl28S7HP32sSfhNoVPbBx3HQWHGtMpc/IMG_0012.jpg?width=450&height=600

4) http://api.ning.com/files/cCBEHEx*jFfMUAXDdLoQnr10vG82JE3QBGy3YCNesUMiWAxIcZMRg9e4enHAwCkUPRFR520ae-50yuSnIJS3SeSd2brVDpmI/IMG_0014.jpg?width=450&height=600

My first thought was broken tooth enamel from a large mammal but... it's so curvy, and doesn't look broken.

My next guess if not fish would be turtle limb element, perhaps coracoid?

-Allison Grunwald

Again we run into this problem where so many talented zooarchs could assist you but are unable to access zoobook due to a complete silence in response to the attempts to join it.

If Laszlo Bartosiewics can't get some response to joining in, I wonder what the problem is at the site.

Does anyone have any info on who runs the site membership?

-D.Blauvelt

Msc. Osteoarchaeology

 

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From: Analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Alex Stephens <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 1:22 PM
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Subject: Re: [ZOOARCH] Bone ID?

 

Sorry, I didn’t realise the images wouldn’t go through. I’ve posted them here:

 

http://zooarchaeology.ning.com/photo/albums/bone-id-1

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Best,

Alex

 

MA student, Osteoarchaeology

University of Southampton

 

On 16 Aug 2016, at 6:09 pm, Alex Stephens <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

 

Hello all!

 

Wondering if I could get some help on an identification? This is part of an assemblage from a high-status Roman fishpond in southern France (c. 1st century BC), with hundreds of mammals, birds, amphibians, and fish already identified. I thought it was fish for a while, but now I have no idea. Hoping to get an ID on this so I can talk about the cut marks!

 

Thanks in advance!!

 

Best,

Alex

 

MA student, Osteoarchaeology

University of Southampton