During deep-sea trawling by driftnet in 1979, in the aquatorium between the islands of Rab, Laganj and Pag, his team recovered a molar and a diaphysis of the femur of a fossil elephant.
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In the long bones, there is an abrupt change from a normal appearance in the shaft ( diaphysis ) to uncalcified regions near the ends ( metaphysis ), which suggests the occurrence of an abrupt metabolic change.
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Http : / / visual . merriam-webster . com / human-being / anatomy / skeleton / parts-long-bone . php In an adult, the metaphysis functions to transfer loads from weight-bearing joint surfaces to the diaphysis.
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Iain Morley, despite his holding the carnivore-origin hypothesis, observed in an additional observation to his November 2006 article that " " [ W ] hilst the collections of cave bear bones examined by D'Errico as well as those discussed by Turk do show similar shaped and damaged holes . . . none of these occur in the diaphysis of a femur ", as is found on the reputed flute.
