Bone piece from reindeer can tell about life in the mountains during the Iron Age

Osteology is "the science of bones" or perhaps more correctly "the science of vertebrate skeletons" and is of course a whole science in itself.

The expert knowledge comes in handy when the findings from the archaeologists' search of the melting glaciers.

The analyzes of bone fragments and horns from reindeer are important parts of the mapping of human life at the time when wild reindeer were hunted in the area.

In the video, Emma Boman tells more about what you can get for information from a piece of bone.