One especially interesting feature of the Jiahu Bone Flutes is that they developed and improved, whilst the earliest examples had five finger holes, later ones — seven or eight.
So imagine you're slicing a nice garlic-cheese bagel one morning, and you lacerate the distal phalanx of your pollex — in other words, you cut the tip of your thumb.
There, scientists had found a finger bone, three teeth, and a piece of skull, which tipped them off to the existence of a whole new lineage of ancient human.
What it looks like I'm looking at here is potentially clubbing of the distal phalanges. It's an enlargement of the furthest part of your finger, where you actually have down sloping of the nail as well.
Old habit made him reach for his luck, but his fingerbones no longer hung about his neck, and he found nothing. " He will not do it, " said Davos. " He could not harm his own blood" .