✅ SOLVED Back of a skull??? From what???

[BadAdze]

Posting for a friend that surface hunts with me in Northwest Missouri.

To me it looks like the back of a skull. What would it be from though?

Seems like i am missing something obvious. What does anyone think about this?

 

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[yaxthri]

Female elk cranium backside. I think... I'm used to identify bones of european animals :-)




So check for yoursef here:

Lewis and Clark as Naturalists

Go to "the collection" and check out Cervus elaphus

Hope this is correct and helped.
If incorrect,... many hunters on this site I think, someone should be able to id...

 

[mical66]

awesome ID yaxthri

 

[Maburger]

Looks like Yaxtri hit the nail on the head! I didn't realize there were elk in Missouri. May have to check out the out of state hunting laws and fees.

 

[mical66]

they may have been reintroduced, we have them here in east tennesse again .

 

[DCMatt]

Female elk cranium backside. I think... I'm used to identify bones of european animals :-)

So check for yoursef here:

Lewis and Clark as Naturalists

Go to "the collection" and check out Cervus elaphus

Hope this is correct and helped.
If incorrect,... many hunters on this site I think, someone should be able to id...

Great ID! I was going to guess Klingon or Sleestak. Considering that is was found in Missouri...

DCMatt

 

[dennco2000]

I was thinking a gargoyle....

 

[kuger]

Yep,cow elk,and they are in Missouri.Great ID

 

[BadAdze]

Thanks so much , i really was confused. As far as i know, we do not have any Elk here at all. Maybe at one time there was Elk, this i will have to research. Hey guys, I was ready to even say Alien...lol I am originally from Alabama, so i have never encountered Elk at all.... Great ID!!!!

 

[BadAdze]

Plentiful before European settlement, elk disappeared from Missouri by 1865. In July 2010, the Conservation Commission directed the Department to reinstate plans to restore elk to a suitable area in southeast Missouri. So this one was probably hunted by Lewis and Clark....lol I usually find Bison Antiquus bones that have been preserved in the soil of the banks of the rivers, then flooding from rain wash them out and they collect in dead debris and along the banks.

 

[old digger]

Nice Find there, Daniel!

 

[kuger]

Plentiful before European settlement, elk disappeared from Missouri by 1865. In July 2010, the Conservation Commission directed the Department to reinstate plans to restore elk to a suitable area in southeast Missouri. So this one was probably hunted by Lewis and Clark....lol I usually find Bison Antiquus bones that have been preserved in the soil of the banks of the rivers, then flooding from rain wash them out and they collect in dead debris and along the banks.

If this was a surface find,and there is elk there now....why/what makes you think its 200 years old?
Elk restoration enters second year | Missouri Department of Conservation

 

[Archeodeb]

Great ID! I was going to guess Klingon or Sleestak. Considering that is was found in Missouri...

DCMatt

HEY!!! I am from Missouri!

 

[yaxthri]

Hahaha Klingon forehead I guess? Also great alternative ID!

I had to google Sleestak and beign a scifi fan that was an embarassment...some good new info

 

[Archeodeb]

If this was a surface find,and there is elk there now....why/what makes you think its 200 years old?
Elk restoration enters second year | Missouri Department of Conservation

I could be wrong, but it looks partially mineralized, which would mean it has been there awhile (or stained with mud, etc.). The conservation department only recently started releasing elk here, so it would have to have been from an earlier point. Whether it is 200 years old remains to be seen.

 

[kuger]

I could be wrong, but it looks partially mineralized, which would mean it has been there awhile (or stained with mud, etc.). The conservation department only recently started releasing elk here, so it would have to have been from an earlier point. Whether it is 200 years old remains to be seen.

Good point Deb,but I have seen that type of "stain",from a certain mineral on cattle bones,that were obviously not 200 years old.If its partially mineralized then yea,clearly very old!!I could have swore yall had Elk in Missouri for longer than you have(re-introduced),this bone clearly is older than a "few",years old.

 

[BadAdze]

The Elk were reintroduced in Southeast Missouri. This was found in extreme Northwest Missouri. Thats why i said what i did, we have not had Elk since (reportedly) 1865. Also i was joking around about it being hunted by Lewis and Clark. Seriously how would i prove that one? LOL I never said it was 200 years old, unless you were taking the Lewis and Clark thing seriously. I would not say it is mineralized, creek stained yes. I find lots of bones that wash out of the banks after the rain, surface hunting is the only way I can acquire these things, digging is illegal in this state. Thank you all for commenting.

 

[DCMatt]

HEY!!! I am from Missouri!

Really? Who would have guessed...?

 

[Archeodeb]

Really? Who would have guessed...?

Oh you're a clever one, you are!

 

[kuger]

The Elk were reintroduced in Southeast Missouri. This was found in extreme Northwest Missouri. Thats why i said what i did, we have not had Elk since (reportedly) 1865. Also i was joking around about it being hunted by Lewis and Clark. Seriously how would i prove that one? LOL I never said it was 200 years old, unless you were taking the Lewis and Clark thing seriously. I would not say it is mineralized, creek stained yes. I find lots of bones that wash out of the banks after the rain, surface hunting is the only way I can acquire these things, digging is illegal in this state. Thank you all for commenting.

I was merely conversating...which is what I thought these boards were for....sorry,for taking what info that was provided literally