First excavated skull in my career as an archaeologist was a bear

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proxy69 on August 19th, 2020 at 16:23 UTC »

It belongs IN A MUSEUM!

blaqwerty123 on August 19th, 2020 at 16:26 UTC »

Nice! Also props to keeping nice nails while diggin in the dirt all day

Adra1481 on August 19th, 2020 at 17:28 UTC »

Story: This was taken a few years ago at my first archaeological dig. My nails were done because I had just taken my highschool senior year photos the week prior.

Now, I have two bachelor’s: one in Biological anthropology, and one in archaeology. I have been on excavations in Israel and Kenya, and I’m entering grad school next week to study functional anatomy in human evolutionary biology.

Thanks for the support, everyone!

Edit: I don't recall what kind of bear this was, since at the time, I had not yet learned faunal analysis (I was still in high school). I wish I still had it in front of me so I could give a better answer, but I would wager this is an adult female Ursus americanus, or black bear.