ELEPHANT BONES
ELEPHANT BONES
The elephant bones found in rooms
DD and DF of the palace annex are
stored in wooden boxes: femur (at
left), tibia (bottom right), vertebrae
(small boxes), and pelvis fragments.
On the rooftop of the excavation
center in Mishrife, zooarchaeologist
Emmanuelle Vila and artist Ahmed
Mohammed discuss his drawing of
a femur.