tiki Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 Would love help identifying which species this bone belongs to- I think its a cuneiform bone but of what mammal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bozark Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 Hey Tiki! If you could provide a picture with some common object for scale, and let us know what formation or area it was found in, that'd help immensely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrewer Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 @Harry Pristis John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiki Posted May 5, 2017 Author Share Posted May 5, 2017 If you look in the lower lefthand corner there is a scale... It's a little hard to see, sorry. The bone is from a cave in the Rift Valley above the Dead Sea in Israel... Other bones in the cave belong mainly to local domesticates like sheep/goat/camel/donkey probably brought there by predators but there's also signs of human activity from around 5000 BC up until the 1st century AD. I know this isn't exactly paleontology but thought I would try! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 This bone is similar enough to an equus ectocuneiform to make me think "donkey." 1 http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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