DoctorCongo

Yes, phalanges, my apologies, They are very small about 15mm which is around 2/3 of an inch. I was in labs again today examining the skeleton and me and my friend actually think they may be from a secondary skeleton that has remains recovered with the main juvenile skeleton. They appear similar to the bones my friend has in his skeleton which he had identified as part of the ischium. They seem to be a scaled down and slightly eroded version of my friends skeletons ischium, and I think they may be from a very young baby, so they would not have fused and would be very very small, I also have a small segment of tibia that is much smaller than it should be for the main skeleton aged roughly 5-6 years, so this what I'm leaning towards at the moment.

yes that is possible, we were told that not all the remains are necessarily human due to issues of taphonomy. I'll try to find out what canine phalanxes look like. thanks for your input.

yeah, It wouldn't let me upload them as individual Jpegs, so i had to put them on paint and upload through that. Il have a try at getting better ones, any suggestions how I might do that? Ok I replicated this post on another forum where I could upload better pics, I hope this isn't breaking any sort of forum etiquette, I'm new to this also. The link is below, Cheers. http://biology-forums.com/index.php?topic=294434.new;sent#new

I am currently doing an osteology module at university and the assessment includes writing a report on an adult and juvenile skeleton. I found a pair of bones in the juvenile (aged 5-6) and as the photos depict they exhibit a peculiar curving. I think they may be phalanges or metacarpals from thumb which display some sort of pathology, but as I am new to this I very well may be wrong. Any help in identifying the bones and possible pathology would be greatly appreciated. Cheers.