We work in the Gulf of Maine, northwest Atlantic Ocean, where gulls, crows
and ravens are now ubiquitous. Their bones, though, are totally absent
from our 5,000 year long faunal sequence recovered from over 40 shell
middens on the Maine coast.* We suspect that this discrepancy has
important implications for paleoecological model building and wonder if
others have encountered anything similar.
* Spiess, Arthur E. and Robert A. Lewis, 2001, The Turner Farm Fauna:
5000 Years of Hunting and Fishing in Penobscot Bay, Maine.
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