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To Facilitate Cooperation in the Identification of Mammal Bones from Archaeological Sites1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Raymond M. Gilmore
Raymond M. Gilmore*
Affiliation:
Division of Mammals, U. S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.
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I have just completed the examination of about 20,000 fragments of mammal bones comprising seven archaeological collections. One collection contained 13,293 fragments, another, 2745 and a third, 2109. The localities represented ranged from Coahuila, Mexico, to western Pennsylvania, and the greater part of six months was required to make the identifications.

Such work, involving great numbers of specimens from many localities and a wide variety of local habitats, constitutes a problem for both the zoologist and the archaeologist. It is also a special problem for institutions which consent to identify such collections. To facilitate cooperation in such identifications, I offer the following suggestions to the archaeologist.

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American Antiquity , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , July 1946 , pp. 49 - 50
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1946

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Published by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

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1 Published by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.