Kate,
The first is indeed a lion. In fact, Pati Wattenmaker found this one more than 40 years ago when she was an undergraduate helping me with the Malyan fauna that I was working on as a grad student. She was very exicted about it and I've always thought this was a key turning point in her career.
The other one looks like Teresa's hand.
Mindy
Melinda A. Zeder
Senior Scientist, Program in Human Ecology and Archaeobiology
Curator, Old World Archaeology
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
PO Box 37012
Washington D.C. 20013-7012
Office: 202 633-1886
Lab: 301 238-1024
Fax: 202 357-2208
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Subject: [ZOOARCH] Brain exercise
Hi all-
A little brain exercise.
We are looking at two bones we just can't seem to figure out. They are both from Iran. The first (here<http://zooarchaeology.ning.com/photo/albums/whose-distal-humerus>), is troubling us because most mammals who have entepicondylar foramen on their humeri are much smaller than this, so we are looking for a larger animal with an entepicondylar foramen on the distal humerus.
The second has stumped everyone in the lab thus far. It is of Bos size but the way in which it is broken is troubling us all. We took a video since photographs couldn't really capture its facets well. See it here<http://youtu.be/RNVGdiUa9Ic> (excuse the cough of my coworker in the background!)
Neither are of extreme, pressing importance, we are just insatiably curious.
Many thanks,
Katelyn Bishop
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