Two of the people working up here are getting "mystery" bones from their
sites and were wondering if they could draw on the expertise of the
other analysts out there. One site is in northern Alaska in the Brooks
Range area (inland, tundra). The other is in the northwest Coast area
of Alaska at the site of Deering. Suggestions have included, among
others, ossified thoracic cartilage and glottal cartilage. The Deering
examples are on the Alaska Consortium of Zooarchaeologists web site:
http://www.akzooarch.org/news.html
Diane Hanson
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