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<div style="direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">My name is Therese Ekholm and I am a PhD student at Uppsala University. I have some questions and I hope you can help me. In the osteological material that I work with I
found some strange holes in the bones that can not be natural. The material is burnt and the pieces of bones are very small in general and the bones with holes are about one centimeter. The holes, that seem to be drilled, are one to one and a half millimeters.
The sides of the holes are not damaged and do not have any traces of wear and tear. All of them are drilled from the outer surface but not all of them are drilled all the way through the bone. Do you have an idea of what it can be? I send you some photos but
I could only make them black and white with the microscope. The site is dated to around 7000 BC and it is not very common to find bones in that area, especially worked bones. </font></div>
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<div style="direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Sincerely</font></div>
<div style="direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Therese Ekholm</font></div>
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