It’s all about remediation now. While the more able-bodied team members dropped into the cave to work on covering our dig sites, I stayed topside and examined the collection of teeth we’ve made.
Beam me up
Here are some examples of horse teeth we’ve collected:
A deciduous (baby) right upper second premolar still embedded in part of the skull.A baby horse’s lower jaw (right side)The same jaw, with the matching teeth from the other side of the jaw.A neat upper molar of a horse, looking at the chewing surface.
We’ve also found other animals beside horses. We have pronghorns, bighorn sheep, and bison.
A lower molar of a bighorn sheep.The jaw of a pronghorn.
After a hard day of work, we had a bit of a Zen moment in the camp kitchen.
Tomorrow is the last day anyone will go into the cave, at least for this project. It’s a little sad, but it’s time.
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