Suspected human bone? Hardly likely to be from a ******* giraffe is it.
Well, a bone from a manatee turned up in a dig in Oxford about fifteen years ago…
But seriously, yes, I largely agree with that, though it can happen – I remember doing some fieldwalking for an archaeological project in a field where a Hurricane had been excavated in the 1980s, and we started to turn up bones scattered across the field. Putting two and two together, black words were said about the excavators, but after a few passes we realised that we’d made three – if they were from a human being they’d had more than the usual number of hands and feet. We must have found hundreds of what looked like finger bones – never did work out what they were from.
Adrian
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