Hi all, especially museum curators!
Going through a room in the Zoological Museum of the Finnish Museum of
Natural History in Helsinki I came across a bone material with no labels,
numbers or other hints of where the material belongs to.
The bones are well preserved, yellowish to white. The material consists
mainly of domestic animals: horse, cattle, pig etc., but there are also
some bones of a bear and even humans. The colouring of the human bones is
somewhat different, red to brownish.
There is also a fragment of a very large bone - the only group I can think
of are elephants.
Some numbers are written on the bones with a pensil, probably by the
analyst.
Our gess is that the material war given to prof. Björn Kurtén (or perhaps
to prof. Olavi Kalela) in the fifties or sixties to be analysed.
If you know anything about this material, please contact me off list. Any
hints are welcome.
With best regards
Pirkko Ukkonen
Department of Geology
P.O. Box 64
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
Finland
tel. +358-9-19150842
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