Fish scale (shown on right)
Description
Woody internal texture, thin, appear flat, translucent when clean, but mostly brown in color from soil matrix. Image: vertabrae on left, scale on right.
Creator(s)
Catherine P. Foster
Site
Kenan Tepe
Area
F
Trench
2
Locus/Basket
2065
Item/Sample Number
1
Context
surface
Date
Late Chalcolithic/Uruk (3600-3000 BCE)
Retrieval Method(s)
Flotation
Lab Equipment
Stereomicroscope (8-35x)
Light Source
LED incident
Dimensions
>1 mm
Material
bone
Type
fish (scale)
Original Format
microartifact
Contributor
Catherine P. Foster
Citation
Catherine P. Foster, "Fish scale (shown on right)," in MicroCommons, Item #56, http://www.microcommons.org/items/show/56 (accessed May 21, 2013).
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