The Brothers Lomas

Where's the beef?

I’ve collected tons of skulls while working in the field of archaeology. It is pretty easy to just go on a hike in a random trajectory and eventually find some dead animal. Deer are usually the easiest to find but also racoons are a big one. Box turtle shells as well although they’re not skulls. Man they’re everywhere in the Shawnee forest of Southern Illinois. I’ve found a few exotics I say such as a complete coyote skeleton, a couple of dog burials, beavers, etc. All fun to find.

A couple of rules exist for picking up skulls. First no human skulls of course (although I’ve come across several in this profession) and nothing still meaty or greasy. Once on a survey I popped up on a huge pile of rotting pig heads and bodies. There were at least 200 of them. Probably one of the more revolting things to run across on a 95-degree day.

Both the cow and buck came from Missouri surveys. The buck was a complete skeleton that was never tore apart by scavengers. The skeleton laid perfectly as the day the buck died. The cow was found on a field in a ravine. It was scavenged (probably coyotes) but the skull was in good shape.

The buck stops here.