Bone Of Contention? Six Letters That Could Rewrite Slavic History
udf.byAlena Slamova and Jiri Machacek with the fragment of cow rib that could change a lot of what we know about the early Slavs Like many important discoveries, it happened by accident.
Alena Slamova, a Czech graduate student in archaeology, was routinely washing some animal bones that had been recovered from a dig in an early Slav settlement in southern Moravia when she noticed unusual scratchings on the surface of one fragment.