Pp. xiv, 118, 40 text-photos. Publisher's light green cloth, lettered in brown on the spine and front cover, lg 8vo. Presents a consise summary of the osteological evidence on the origin of the domestic dog. Olsen presents data for the domestication of the dog from all continents.

Origins of the Domestic Dog: The Fossil Record

Science & Math

Olsen, Stanley J.

Earth Sciences

University of Arizona Press

This classic work provides a guide to the identification of nonhuman animal bones. Olsen illustrates various diagnostic characteristics of rodents and dogs; jaguars and other members of the cat family; the domestic horse, pig, and goat; and other animals whose bones are commonly found in archaeological sites in the southeastern United States.

Mammal Remains from Archaeological Sites: Southeastern and Southwestern United States (Papers of the Peabody Museum)

History

Americas

Peabody Museum Press

Olsen's invaluable manual presents diagnostic characteristics of the fish, amphibian, and reptile bones commonly found in archaeological sites in the southeastern and southwestern United Stares. An appendix describes in detail the osteology of the wild turkey.

Fish, Amphibian and Reptile Remains from Archaeological Sites: Part 1, Southeastern and Southwestern United States

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

This comparative analysis aids the fieldworker in identifying fossil proboscidean bones from early man sites. It also describes the skulls, mandibles, and posteranial skeletons of forty families of birds frequently found in archaeological excavations in the United States.

Osteology for the Archaeologist: American Mastadon and the Woolly Mammoth; North American Birds: Skulls and Mandibles; North American Birds: ... Harvard universiTy, V. 56, No. 3 and 4.)

Archaeology

Bones from Awatovi contains a detailed analysis of the massive collection of both the faunal remains and the bone/antler artifacts recovered from the site of Awatovi. Unique in its size and degree of preservation, the Awatovi faunal collection provides rich ground for analysis and interpretation. Olsen and Wheeler deliver an in-depth examination which is of interest to archaeologists and faunal analysts alike.

Bones from Awatovi, Northeastern Arizona (Papers of the Peabody Museum)

Wheeler, Richard Page

This comparative analysis aids the fieldworker in identifying fossil proboscidean bones from early man sites. It also describes the skulls, mandibles, and posteranial skeletons of forty families of birds frequently found in archaeological excavations in the United States.

Osteology for the Archaeologist: Number 3, The American Mastodon and the Woolly Mammoth; Number 4, North American Birds: Skulls and Mandibles; Number ... Skeletons (Papers of the Peabody Museum)

Bone remains of a considerable range of vertebrate mammals, many of them unique to Central America, have been recovered from archaeological excavations at Maya sites. This volume aids in identifying faunal remains recovered in the Maya area and is especially useful for archaeologists who do not have large comparative collections readily available.

An Osteology of Some Maya Mammals (Papers of the Peabody Museum)

Post-Cranial Skeletal Characters of Bison and Bos (Classic Reprint)

Biological Sciences

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