After careful analysis, the conclusion is that the bead is made from either the metapodial or the proximal phalanx bone of a ...

This artifact was used for personal ornamentation. It's impossible to know definitively, but experts think beads made of bone, ivory, shells, and teeth were decorative and might also have been ...

The process to identify the origins of both the bone bead and bone needles was made possible with the utilization of zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry, also known as ZooMS, and micro-CT scanning ...

Renovations of a medieval building in the Netherlands revealed a very rare find: a floor made of bones, officials said. From the outside, the building in downtown Alkmaar looks worn and unoccupied but ...