Identifying and Interpreting Animal Bones A Manual
- Author/Creator:
- Beisaw, April M.
- Publication/Creation:
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2013
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
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Additional/Related Title Information
- Full Title:
- Identifying and Interpreting Animal Bones A Manual / April M. Beisaw
- Series Titles:
- Texas A&M University anthropology series ; no. 18
Texas A & M University anthropology series ; no. 18.
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Recording--Handbooks, manuals, etc
Archaeological surveying--Handbooks, manuals, etc
Taphonomy--Handbooks, manuals, etc
Archaeological assemblages--Handbooks, manuals, etc
Animal remains (Archaeology)--Identification--Handbooks, manuals, etc
Animal remains (Archaeology)--Handbooks, manuals, etc
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- Introduction -- Preparing your assemblage -- What animal is it? -- What bone is it? -- What else can the bone tell me? -- Recording your data -- Describing your data -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Online appendix -- Appendix 2: Bone atlases -- Appendix 3: Mammals, fish, birds, reptiles, and amphibians by habitat preference -- Glossary.
- Summary:
- Offering a field-tested analytic method for identifying faunal remains, along with helpful references, images, and examples of the most commonly encountered North American species, Identifying and Interpreting Animal Bones: A Manual provides an important new reference for students, avocational archaeologists, and even naturalists and wildlife enthusiasts. Using the basic principles outlined here, the bones of any vertebrate animal, including humans, can be identified and their relevance to common research questions can be better understood.Because the interpretation of archaeological s
- Language:
- English
- Language Note:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 online resource (194 p.)
- General Note:
- Description based upon print version of record.
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9936953185102486
- ISBN:
- 1-4619-4452-X
1-62349-082-0 - OCLC Number:
- 859382538
859155625
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