[King Prout]

"Human Osteology, A Laboratory and Field Guide" by ____Bass

I don't have it on me here, but if you'll wait for a bit I'll go dig it out after supper and give you everything down to its ISBN, and cite the chapter and page.

I do recall that the book is divided into "cranial anatomy" and "post-cranial anatomy" - the latter starts at the Atlas, the former includes all bones north of the Atlas.

Coyoteman notifies me that upthread he posted a list of human cranial bones from that very book, fifth edition.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Yeah. I found it. A common dictionary allows for both definitions. The first one includes both facial and cranial bones. The second excludes the facial.

Is there anything about this particular find that would lead one to conclude it is not human?

[Coyoteman]

I have corrected my post to Fester (see above). While William M. Bass' Human Osteology does list the full 22 in his "bones of the skull" table, other sources incude only the eight braincase bones within the "cranium."