Rookie Weekend Find

[Riverskimmer]

Hello everyone,

My friend and I finally had a chance to get the airboat out for the day to do some looking around after the flood and we came across a few artifacts. After some research I think we found a Mastodon scapula, Bison bone and what i think is a horse tooth. We also found several points.

Thanks for looking!

[Foshunter]

Nice----Tom

[Rob Russell]

Nice finds! That cannon bone is impressive!

[lissa318]

That bone is impressive!!! Nice finds!

[ZiggieCie]

[Bev]

WoW SPECTACULAR!

[Mike Pocock]

Nice finds like the bone

Regards

Mike

[jcbshark]

Great finds, I love the points: )

[FLINTandBONE]

Nice finds on all counts!

[caldigger]

I think you've just stepped up to an advanced level of rookieness! Really nice pieces!!!

[Riverskimmer]

Thanks everyone! headed back out this weekend.

[Riverskimmer]

Added a few more items to my collection Saturday before the storms rolled in. I have to give credit to my buddy for finding the Bison skull, the funny thing is, I had to have walked by it the weekend before.

I also found what I think is a fragment of a Mastodon tusk. (please correct me if I am wrong)

[jcbshark]

Looks more like a pie doc bone to me, ivory would have schreger lines in the cross section: )

[Auspex]

Looks more like a pie doc bone to me, ivory would have schreger lines in the cross section: )

The 'spongy' trabecular bone structure is not what one would see in a tusk:

This is a broken bone.

[Riverskimmer]

Thanks for the info. I wasn't sure if a tusk would have that 'spongy' look on the inside. I looked at dozens of photos and some looked hollow and some of them looked solid, so I wasn't really sure.

[Riverskimmer]

OK, I have been trying to figure out what bone fragment this might be and while doing so I came across some interesting information about elephant tusks. I have added more pics to get your opinion.

pic #1 Shows that there is a pulp cavity on the upper part of the tusk

pic #2 Shows what I think is the pulp cavity tapering towards the end of the fragment.

pic #3 looking from the end the pulp cavity is almost completely gone. If this were a bone wouldn't it be consistent through out a bone?

pic #4 Is what I think could possibly be the outer layer (Cementum)

pic #5 Hard to see in this pic but there are lines running parallel with the fragment as you would see on a tusk.

OK is this a tusk or a bone? If you think it is a bone please let me know what bone it could be, because I had no luck figuring it out.

Thanks in advance.

[JohnJ]

OK, I have been trying to figure out what bone fragment this might be and while doing so I came across some interesting information about elephant tusks. I have added more pics to get your opinion.

pic #1 Shows that there is a pulp cavity on the upper part of the tusk

pic #2 Shows what I think is the pulp cavity tapering towards the end of the fragment.

pic #3 looking from the end the pulp cavity is almost completely gone. If this were a bone wouldn't it be consistent through out a bone?

pic #4 Is what I think could possibly be the outer layer (Cementum)

pic #5 Hard to see in this pic but there are lines running parallel with the fragment as you would see on a tusk.

OK is this a tusk or a bone? If you think it is a bone please let me know what bone it could be, because I had no luck figuring it out.

Thanks in advance.

It is unequivocally a piece of bone and not a piece of tusk. Some bone fragments don't have enough diagnostic features to indicate which bone.

[Riverskimmer]

Thanks for the reply!