A small distance away, beneath the pitiless sun on a stony, makeshift warhost field, forty threadbare warriors danced with snakeblades made of charred sheep bones.

Internal duct-flutes have a long history: an example of an Iron Age specimen, made from a sheep bone, exists in Leeds City Museum.

Those are not sheep bones, though.

The forgeries, made out of materials such as cow horn and giraffe hair, or sheep bones and bitumen, can sell for up to US$30,000 each.

Doesn't look like a sheep bone, or a cow.

Grave goods were variable, but where they appeared consisted of ceramic vessels, copper-alloy or iron brooches, or sheep bones.

The bone flute was made from a sheep metapodial bone.

It is worthy of note that there were sheep bones, bull's head and feet bones there as well.

Botai sites had no cattle or sheep bones; the only domesticated animals, in addition to horses, were dogs.

As the settlers had no sheep, a sheep bone confirmed that there was contact between the states.