While out digging on the dogs with Connie and Kelly, we came across this cow scapula.
Cow, ox, bison, horse, caribou, and walrus scapula (as well as others) were the first shovels and are the kind of thing that dug the foundations for those massive stone buildings you find in Central America.
Large scapulas can be used as a kind of short-handled digging tool without any alteration, or else they can be hafted to a wooden handle as the caribou scapula, below, once was.
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