Take a guess

[J05H]

Love that knife by the way.

[Atlatlista]

Just for fun - assorted giraffe parts:



Tibia with a sense of scale:

[J05H]

It's either a huge bone, or a tiny little laptop.

[Atlatlista]

It's either a huge bone, or a tiny little laptop.

Little from column A, little from column B 

[adb]

Here's a picture of the knife I got from my buddy that has jigged Giraffe shin bone scales. He gave me some extra slabs of this bone to do some tips.

That is gorgeous!

Yes... I agree. If anyone is interested, his name is Greg Lightfoot. He's a world famous knifemaker who lives a couple of hours drive west of me. Google Lightfoot Knives, and you'll find him.

[adb]

Huge bones... but a huge critter. I'm not surprised.

[adb]

Here's another one of Greg's knives. A companion of the one I already posted. Slightly smaller. I have a serious knife problem.

[adb]

Just for fun - assorted giraffe parts:



Tibia with a sense of scale:

Excuse me for asking... but why do you have a box of Giraffe bones under your desk?

[adb]

I think kudos to Gus for being first to come up with Giraffe bone. How did you do that??

[J05H]

Just for fun - assorted giraffe parts:



Tibia with a sense of scale:

Excuse me for asking... but why do you have a box of Giraffe bones under your desk?

I'm curious as well.

[Atlatlista]

Zooarchaeology PhD student.  We study bones of animals in archaeological contexts.  My specific research focus is the earliest origins of hunting amongst pleistocene hominins, so we work primarily with African fauna.  We also compare mortality profiles to known hunter-gatherer groups like the Hadza.  These giraffe bones were from a Hadza giraffe kill, and were cleaned (sort of) and shipped back to the US to be studied.  The whole lab is covered from wall to wall in fossils from Olduvai Gorge and bones of African fauna:

[adb]

Wow, very cool. What's your PhD thesis?

[J05H]

Yes, very cool!!

[Atlatlista]

Wow, very cool. What's your PhD thesis?

I'm a first year, so ask me that in two years and I'll freak out and still not answer 

Seriously though, my primary focus is looking into the development of projectile weapons technology through a combination of faunal analysis (mortality patterns, bone damage) and lithic analysis (fracture patterns, typologies, use-wear data, etc) as well as experimental archaeology (my favorite part).

[adb]

You have a great job... if you can call a PhD student a job!  

I think you should do some archery related experimental archaeology.