Sorg identifies bones found at hospital construction site as non-human, BDN reports

The Bangor Daily News reported Marcella Sorg, state forensic anthropologist and a research professor with the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine, identified bones found last month at a hospital construction site as non-human. The bones were found at a construction site for Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor by the hospital’s director of fire and employee safety on July 25, the article states. Sorg said the bones are those of animals that had been butchered for food, and are most likely cow and pig but have not been positively identified. “Usually we don’t ID species as long as we know it’s not human,” Sorg said, noting the bones would have to be compared to bones in the university zooarchaeology reference collection.