Welcome to The Bone Room Online
The Bone Room is the web's premiere natural history store. We specialize in natural science and all things once living.
The Bone Room is the place to come for real human and animal skulls and skeletons, genuine fossils, quality bone and fossil cast replicas, framed insects, and all manner of weird and wonderful things.
The Bone Room is the place to come for real human and animal skulls and skeletons, genuine fossils, quality bone and fossil cast replicas, framed insects, and all manner of weird and wonderful things.
NOVEMBER NEWSLETTER
Why, yes, we have snake vertebra bracelets. We've carried these size-adjustable Indonesian snake bone bracelets for years, but they're hard to keep in stock. Right now we just got in a fresh batch of them in black and white, so - think ahead, buy them now!
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For Thanksgiving, we'd like to point out we do have some turkey-appropriate Laura Zindel ware: Thanksgiving; and if you're going vegetarian, we do still have some of her mushroom dishes at 10% off: Mushrooms
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Finally arrived and unpacked from the Denver Show: Cast anthills! Perhaps you've seen the process on YouTube - if not check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGJ2jMZ-gaI. The three examples we have to offer are indeed all from fire ants, and very like the one in the video. The largest one is shaped roughly like a Christmas tree, and could perhaps be decorated for the season. These are all aluminum, and as they say on EBay, great conversation pieces.
ARCHAEOLOGY
We've long said that The Bone Room is 'like a natural history museum', and natural history museums almost always have archaeological and anthropological departments - so why has it taken so long for The Bone Room to add ancient artifacts and coins to the items on offer? Well, mainly it is because Ron had not yet developed an interest in the subject; he was still entranced with all the other 'ologies represented in Bone Room stock.
But I have long been interested in archaeology. Even before I was putting insect parts under a microscope, I was reading about digging up Indian burial mounds, and excavations in Italy and Egypt, and thinking about mythology and old, old religions. Over the years I've made my own collection of small items, mysterious or meaningful to me. Nothing grand, nothing important or expensive - I'm not a Hearst or a Getty - but items that were made and used by people generations ago, which make me feel a connection to the past.
SO we are starting a new chapter in the Book of The Bone Room, and opening up a new section of the website to offer manmade items dating back hundreds and in some cases thousands of years. These items are from my collection, and other peoples' collections, and are therefore legal to buy and sell. Whenever I have information about the history or origin of the piece, I have included it, but often with these interesting but unimportant pieces, the item has been sold, handed down and re-sold so often the provenance is lost. Any archaeological or anthropological information I pass on with the object must be considered with the understanding that our knowledge of ancient beliefs and traditions is based on the often spotty archaeological record - more and better information might become available with the next great find, the next edition of the AJA.
The pieces offered here are of little or no interest to a museum; they are common pieces, or broken pieces, or their provenance is spotty. But though they have no scientific value, I think they have incredible emotional value. To hold a pendant - even a broken piece of a pendant - that was worn by a Roman centurion, or to contemplate a fertility statuette made 13,000 years ago - to me this helps give us perspective, makes real the people of times so remote as to seem like fiction. But someone did make this little piece of art, someone else traded or paid for it, someone wore it or displayed it for status or for religious reasons...these were real people, so long ago that we may have almost as much trouble imagining them as they would have had imagining us.
I hope you find this new section intriguing. I certainly do.
Diana
We've long said that The Bone Room is 'like a natural history museum', and natural history museums almost always have archaeological and anthropological departments - so why has it taken so long for The Bone Room to add ancient artifacts and coins to the items on offer? Well, mainly it is because Ron had not yet developed an interest in the subject; he was still entranced with all the other 'ologies represented in Bone Room stock.
But I have long been interested in archaeology. Even before I was putting insect parts under a microscope, I was reading about digging up Indian burial mounds, and excavations in Italy and Egypt, and thinking about mythology and old, old religions. Over the years I've made my own collection of small items, mysterious or meaningful to me. Nothing grand, nothing important or expensive - I'm not a Hearst or a Getty - but items that were made and used by people generations ago, which make me feel a connection to the past.
SO we are starting a new chapter in the Book of The Bone Room, and opening up a new section of the website to offer manmade items dating back hundreds and in some cases thousands of years. These items are from my collection, and other peoples' collections, and are therefore legal to buy and sell. Whenever I have information about the history or origin of the piece, I have included it, but often with these interesting but unimportant pieces, the item has been sold, handed down and re-sold so often the provenance is lost. Any archaeological or anthropological information I pass on with the object must be considered with the understanding that our knowledge of ancient beliefs and traditions is based on the often spotty archaeological record - more and better information might become available with the next great find, the next edition of the AJA.
The pieces offered here are of little or no interest to a museum; they are common pieces, or broken pieces, or their provenance is spotty. But though they have no scientific value, I think they have incredible emotional value. To hold a pendant - even a broken piece of a pendant - that was worn by a Roman centurion, or to contemplate a fertility statuette made 13,000 years ago - to me this helps give us perspective, makes real the people of times so remote as to seem like fiction. But someone did make this little piece of art, someone else traded or paid for it, someone wore it or displayed it for status or for religious reasons...these were real people, so long ago that we may have almost as much trouble imagining them as they would have had imagining us.
I hope you find this new section intriguing. I certainly do.
Diana
Bone Room Gift Certificate
Sometimes you know your giftee would love something from The Bone Room - but what? Maybe you aren't sure whether or not they already have a beaver skull; maybe you don't know whether they'd prefer a framed butterfly or beetle; maybe you just want to introduce them to the Bone Room shopping experience. The quandary is solved with a Bone Room Gift Certificate!
Our new online Gift Certificates can be delivered to the recipient by email, or they can be printed so you can deliver the good news personally. The Gift Certificate includes directions to The Bone Room webiste and instructions for redeeming the value of the card. Our Gift Certificates have no additional processing fees, no sales tax, and no expiration date. They are available in increments of $10, $25, $50 and $100.
Give them a Bone Room Gift Certificate - it's like giving them the whole store!
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Sometimes you know your giftee would love something from The Bone Room - but what? Maybe you aren't sure whether or not they already have a beaver skull; maybe you don't know whether they'd prefer a framed butterfly or beetle; maybe you just want to introduce them to the Bone Room shopping experience. The quandary is solved with a Bone Room Gift Certificate!
Our new online Gift Certificates can be delivered to the recipient by email, or they can be printed so you can deliver the good news personally. The Gift Certificate includes directions to The Bone Room webiste and instructions for redeeming the value of the card. Our Gift Certificates have no additional processing fees, no sales tax, and no expiration date. They are available in increments of $10, $25, $50 and $100.
Give them a Bone Room Gift Certificate - it's like giving them the whole store!
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Looking for Human Skulls?
You are in the right place! The Bone Room has been selling human skulls and bones for over 25 years. We have the largest selection of human skulls available. Browse our online selection here, and if you don't see what you are looking for email us and we will send you more options. Read more about human bones and skulls in the United States here.
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Do you work with Search & Rescue Dogs? If you are looking for bones suitable to train search and rescue dogs, please see here. We have provided bones for many search and rescue dogs trainers in the past, and have the experience to help you find exactly what you need at more affordable prices.
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WE BUY BONES
Need a prop for something?
Are you a photographer, set decorator, or artist looking for a unique piece for your work? If so, you'll be happy to know we do rentals! With our rentals, you can take advantage of our one of a kind collection for a fraction of the cost.
View our rental information here.
View our rental information here.
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