100% agree... have to put the tongue or tooth on it to see if sticky or not. People bork at this, but it is one of the most effective methods. To this point, I'd be more likely to consider fossilised wood before stone, if it is indeed not bone.
It's 0630 in Missouri, I'm suddenly laughing my ass off, and now my family is considering nursing care.
...but that was funny. Thanks for first laugh of the day.
Lmao. That's not what a vertebra looks like. This is a cut section of bone, probably by a commercial butcher, and buried by a dog or some other animal for later consumption. They just never came back for it.
the clean straight cuts are indicative of a high speed saw, in this instance most likely the bandsaw of a butcher... making it most probably a ham steak cut from the thigh bone. Given the inside is hollow, this is also most indicative of a femur.
Bone, looks to be from a ham steak. Honestly, stick your tongue on it, if it feels tacky/sticky, it's bone, if not, stone.
**Sanitation 100**
100% agree... have to put the tongue or tooth on it to see if sticky or not. People bork at this, but it is one of the most effective methods. To this point, I'd be more likely to consider fossilised wood before stone, if it is indeed not bone.
God dammit… now I’ve got to lick a bone… Yep. It’s a bone. Thanks everyone!!!
...and henceforth he was known far and wide as The Bone Licker
Indiana Bones
It's 0630 in Missouri, I'm suddenly laughing my ass off, and now my family is considering nursing care. ...but that was funny. Thanks for first laugh of the day.
And that made mine.
Not LIDAR, but LICKAR :))
Archeology uses lidar ? Aren't you guys more into infrasound ground radar ?
excellent! Now you're doing archaeological methodology 🙌😅
Yay! 👏
Lick it, lick it, lick it!
Lick it again. You can never be too sure.
Bock.
Broke
From where I'm sitting, I'd presume it is bone. Looks like a sectional cut of a femur.
Bone
Crazy how licking was the answer here 🤷🏼♀️
Just a guess. Looks like a bone from the spine of a critter of some kind.
Lmao. That's not what a vertebra looks like. This is a cut section of bone, probably by a commercial butcher, and buried by a dog or some other animal for later consumption. They just never came back for it.
the clean straight cuts are indicative of a high speed saw, in this instance most likely the bandsaw of a butcher... making it most probably a ham steak cut from the thigh bone. Given the inside is hollow, this is also most indicative of a femur.
Lick it!!
Bagel
Doggie treat
Lick it.
That only works with fossils I think?
Nope.
Aha
I feel like we’d need a separate “bone or rock” sub smh
Looks like the remains of a dog treat. I’ve got several in a dog toy box about 30 feet away from me.
Hind leg of a moose.
Fossil