You're kidding right? Animal remains are fairly regularly reported as human until they can be excluded by laboratory tests. Bear paws are frequently confused with human hands...
You're kidding right? Animal remains are fairly regularly reported as human until they can be excluded by laboratory tests. Bear paws are frequently confused with human hands...
I’m not talking about being able to recognize isolated skeletal parts. Only a real woodsman, or a person who kills his own food, could probably tell the difference between the isolated pelvis of different game species that are about the same size.
But when anybody encounters and entire skeleton, it’s pretty clear whether it’s a cow, a deer, a human being, a dog, a small rodent-like mammal, an elephant, or something you’ve never seen before. You can certainly look at a whole skeleton and recognize the shape of a horse’s skull and neck, even if you’re not a horseman, so you know you haven’t found the skeleton of a deer or muskrat. Naturally if some primitive person, or even a modern-day person, came across the newly-exposed skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, they could see that this huge thing was like nothing that had been seen before, and it doesn’t take much to flesh the bones out in one’s mind.