Even though animal bones and plant remains are strong indicators for economical strategies, only few sites of the region have so far been put to bioarchaeological analysis.
Bones and charred remains were exhumed, and contemporary accounts inidcate that half the adult men in Jedwabne, as well as women and children, took part in the pogrom, some watching, some helping to round up those who tried to escape and others killing Jews with their own hands.
Bone remains are isolated, a fact that is indicative of a time of exposure of the carcasses long enough to enable decay and complete disarticulation.
Bones, ceramics and other remains were moved to a tented compound for further study and some artifacts were reconstructed piece by piece.
A total of 10 crocodiles were found dead, of which five had been killed by locals, two died from apparently natural reasons and three by unknown reasons (only bone remains were found after digging).
What is clear is that the number of bone remains is very rare more than 14,000 years ago".
The majority of dinosaur remains are of course bones and teeth, but these have a lot to say.
Whittle and Wysocki note that among the human remains are the bones of "8 dogs, a cat, a red deer, pig, sheep and cattle".
All that remains are bones, more of which were found by a Dutch-Mauritian team in October.
Most of the remains are bones kept in a storeroom at the museum, having been deposited there over the years by anthropologists who were studying, among other things, the migration of prehistoric peoples across the Bering Strait into North America.
