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Hi Eve, If indeed not a healed fracture, another option would be rickets, which causes bowing of bones. I've seen (much) milder degrees of bowing while this seems to be an extreme case (if it is that). Cheers, Angelos H. Sent from Outlook<http://aka.ms/weboutlook> ________________________________ From: Analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Eve Rannamäe <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 15 November 2018 11:39 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [ZOOARCH] Anomalous dog femur Dear colleagues, On behalf of Stefan Hartmann from the University of Cologne, I'm asking about an anomalous dog bone from an excavation in the region of the great thermae at the Colonia Ulpia Traiana near Xanten. "Among the material was the right femur of a dog which had a conspicuous dished bend towards the front of the bone. Because of the extreme curve it was thought it to be the result of a pathological transformation, maybe a healed fracture. But we couldn't identify any traces of a bone fracture. I had a vet take a look at the bone, who even radiographed it but also couldn't find any signs for a pathological alteration." I've uploaded the two pictures here in Google Drive<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_LpM04c6QA1NDzgmn9UNt-4dmGpP7pnk?usp=sharing>. Please let me know if you think of any reason for this anomaly, so I could forward this discussion to Stefan. Thank you! Best wishes, -- Dr Eve Rannamäe Marie Sk³odowska-Curie Experienced Researcher BioArCh, University of York United Kingdom ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the ZOOARCH list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=ZOOARCH&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the ZOOARCH list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=ZOOARCH&A=1