Fossils are often found in the badlands, as well as in the grasslands; notable is a large cache of bison bones found just northwest of Crawford.
Yesterday in Gvozdavka, Ukraine, Rabbi Shlomo Baksht removed a small cache of human bones from a cardboard box and placed them in a shallow grave, a hole once dug as a trench by villagers trying to thwart the advance of Nazi tanks in the early 1940s.
And three recent raids in India that confiscated huge caches of tiger bones and hides suggest that the need for such policing tools is greater than ever.
When I visited him in May, he had one team analyzing DNA that had been obtained from a forty- or fifty-thousand-year-old finger bone found in Siberia, and another trying to extract DNA from a cache of equally ancient bones from China.
In 2004, a Spanish geneticist, Dr. Jose A. Lorente, extracted genetic material from a cache of Columbus's bones in Seville to settle a dispute about where he was buried.
The researchers analyzed a cache of 2631 pieces of gazelle bone, found during excavations in the early 1990s at the site of Tell Kuran in northeastern Syria, a settlement or hunting camp dated to between 5500 and 5100 years ago shortly before early cities rose in the Near East.
One boned the star of Bones.
Several times a year, journalists and historians are thrown a few bones — and presented with a small cache of new papers.
