The next morning your team returns to work in the laboratory, where you get a call from the sheriff. The family of the three missing boys is pressuring him for information. Your team begins the final osteological exam. After careful examination, you produce your final inventory. You are working with the same number of bones, but you now have determined which side of the body they come from (when applicable). You have:.
• 3 skulls
• 6 femora (4 right and 2 left)
• 4 os coxae (All adolescent males, 1 right and 3 left)
• 2 humeri (both right)
• 2 tibiae (both left)
• 5 scapulae (3 right and 2 left)
1. Based on the revised inventory, would you change your MNI? If so, what would be the new MNI?
2. What do you tell the sheriff? Are these the missing boys?