[Bonetools] bone with holes

[Christian Küchelmann]

Hi Haskel,

to me these holes look like insect borings too. Apart from the  
references Richard already cited the following deal also with insect  
modification of bone:

Behrensmeyer, Anna Kay (1978): Taphonomic and ecologic information  
from bone weathering. – Paleobiology 4(2), 150-162

Britt, Brooks B. / Scheetz, Rodney D. / Dangerfield, Anne (2008): A  
Suite of Dermestid Beetle Traces on Dinosaur Bone from the Upper  
Jurassic Morrison Formation, Wyoming, USA. – Ichnos 15, 59-71

Derry, Douglas E. (1911): Damage done to Skulls and bones by  
Termites. – Nature 86, 245-246

Gautier, Achilles (1993): Trace Fossils in Archaeozoology. – Journal  
of Archaeological Science 20, 511-523

Keiler, John Albrecht (2002): Bedeutende Fossilvorkommen des Quartärs  
in Thüringen. Teil 3: Insekten. – Beiträge zur Geologie von Thüringen  
9, 173-186

Martin, Larry D. & West, Dixie L. (1995): The recognition and use of  
dermestid (Insecta, Coleoptera) pupation chambers in paleoecology. –  
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 113, 303-310

Rivallain, J. & van Neer, Wim (1983): Les Fouilles de Koyom (Sud du  
Tchad): Étude du Matériel archéologique et faunique. –  
L'Anthropologie 87(2), 221-239

Tobien, Heinz (1965): Insekten-Fraßspuren an tertiären und  
pleistozänen Säugetier-Knochen. – Senckenbergiana lethaea 46a, 441-451

Best

Christian
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Am 20.07.2010 um 04:54 schrieb Haskel Greenfield:

> Hi. Colleagues have found a human bone from Tel es-Safi, area F, in  
> Israel, dated to the Ottoman period (most probably). It has some  
> holes that look as if they were drilled from the inside of the  
> bone's cortex. They were not drilled from the outer face since  
> complete diameters are visible only from inside. Therefore, it  
> seems they were probably made by some sort of insect. they are not  
> from roots or human drilling. Has anyone ever see such holes or  
> know what made them?
>
> thanks
>
> Best
>
>
>
> [Haskel Greenfield
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