MMorgan Posted May 22, 2021 Share Posted May 22, 2021 20210521_192722.mp4 20210521_192722.mp4 20210521_192722.mp4 20210521_192722.mp4 20210521_192722.mp4 20210521_192722.mp4 20210521_192722.mp4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelivingdead531 Posted May 22, 2021 Share Posted May 22, 2021 I don’t have an answer, but it may help other members if you could narrow down the county or town in Tennessee where you found it in. Also, just a severely uneducated guess but maybe a modern cow. One end seems to have a clean, butcher-like cut. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett Breakin' Rocks Posted May 22, 2021 Share Posted May 22, 2021 13 minutes ago, thelivingdead531 said: One end seems to have a clean, butcher-like cut. You are correct .. that is a modern butcher cut. Not sure which mammal but a cow is probably a good guess given the size. Cheers, Brett 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelivingdead531 Posted May 22, 2021 Share Posted May 22, 2021 7 minutes ago, Brett Breakin' Rocks said: You are correct .. that is a modern butcher cut. Not sure which mammal but a cow is probably a good guess given the size. Cheers, Brett I may have gotten one correct! Hooray for me! 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted May 22, 2021 Share Posted May 22, 2021 The turtle looks interested. Perhaps it was her luncheon. Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted May 22, 2021 Share Posted May 22, 2021 It seems to me that for this to be a human bone we would need to be seeing a very small live example, or the bone in question would need to be from a very large individual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted May 22, 2021 Share Posted May 22, 2021 Hello MMorgan, and welcome to the forum. Although it is of course possible to find human bones from different historical and prehistorical times in a river, this one does not seem to be one. Long Bones of many tetrapodes do lok similar, while in detail your find appears non-human to me. Size has been mentioned, also the cross-section is rather flat. As the others mentioned, the cut end makes a relatively recent domestic animal the most probable victim. Minerals in soil and water can stain bones dark in astonishingly short times. Best Regards, J 1 Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted May 22, 2021 Share Posted May 22, 2021 Others have already mentioned it, but this doesn't look like human one to me either. Having seen and handled some during my studies in archaeology - though I in no case claim this provides me with either expertise or sufficient experience - the bone looks too big and robust to be human. The fact that one side of it is flat is another indication, as human long bones, to the best of my memory, are round to triangle in shape, with flat-backed long bones corresponding most closely to the lower leg and foot bones of grazers. Bovid - and in consideration of the butchery-marks: cow - therefore does not seem like such a bad guess... 1 'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMorgan Posted May 30, 2021 Author Share Posted May 30, 2021 This was found in Roam County in Tennessee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMorgan Posted May 30, 2021 Author Share Posted May 30, 2021 THANK YOU all for your information. I really appreciate it! I just thought it was very strange and there are civil war artifacts around this area. I can't help but, wonder. Thank you guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 1 hour ago, MMorgan said: THANK YOU all for your information. I really appreciate it! I just thought it was very strange and there are civil war artifacts around this area. I can't help but, wonder. Thank you guys! Well, seeing as the nine is somewhat older, it could still have been used as provisions during the civil war. It's just not a soldier 'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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