To All: Or Anyone: HELP!!
        I was referred to you by Betty Brennan and 2-Guys-Fossils and told you
might be able to help me.
        Dig this: I have been working on figuring out the notes played on a
flute found in a Neanderthal cave sire, made from a cave bear femur of a
cub.
        In order to complete my work, I have concluded that the femur would
have to reach 37cm in order to be long enough to play the notes in
question in tune with the do, re, mi scale. Everything so far points to
that conclusion -- PROVIDED the femur could have been long enough.
        I already know that a 2 year old modern black cub bear could have such
a length of femur.
        The question is whether the segemnt of femur that was found is of a
cave bear cub old enough to also have such a length? All I can give you
is the diameter of the femur in its narrowest part. That diameter is
2cm.
        SO HERE IS THE QUESTION: Can a cave bear cub femur that is 2cm wide at
its narrowest point possibly be 37cm long originally?
        If it's any help, the ratio of diametere to length is the same in the
Black bear, so I'm told.
        I don't need exact answers. JUST AN EDUCATED OPINION, as I have no clue
at all, being a musicologist. (No musicologists ever have a clue about
much of anything, actually). No local zoo here; local library is
inadequate to provide answers. Slovenian paleontologist who found bone
not answering communications -- presumed ill. YOU'RE MY ONLY HOPE.
Thanks for your time:--Bob Fink