Hi Elizabeth,
You can find some excellent drawings of deer skeletons (roe and red,
not white I'm afraid) on the Archeozoo website. Try this link:
http://www.archeozoo.org/fr-article50.html
Only half of the skeleton is shown but they still might be of use.
Peter
At 16:23 01/12/2006, Sylvia Warman wrote:
>Dear Elizabeth,
>
>There is an annotated diagram in Reitz and Wing's Zooarchaeology on p
>152.
>
>Sylvia
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites
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>Subject: Re: [ZOOARCH] photo or drawing of articulated deer skeleton
>needed
>
>As I remember there is an articulated red deer skeleton in the Oxford
>University of Natural History,
>you could get someone to take a photo of it at an angle and work an
>illustration from that? The
>mammal curator would be the person to contact - sorry I have forgotten
>his name but contact via
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>jacqui
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>Jacqui Mulville,
>Senior Lecturer in Bioarchaeology,
>Examinations Officer
>School of History and Archaeology
>Cardiff University
>Humanities Building
>Colum Drive
>Cardiff
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>http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/hisar/people/archaeology/jm1/
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>Tel: + 44 (0) 29 2087 4247
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> >>> "Moore, Elizabeth" <[log in to unmask]> 01/12/2006
>15:41 >>>
>Does anyone have a photo of an articulated white-tailed deer (Odocoileus
>virginianus) skeleton that they could email to me? Alternatively, a
>citation for a drawing of one would be fine as well. If not
>white-tailed deer, other deer could work too. I need one as a reference
>for an artist to produce an illustration for an exhibit. In particular,
>I need to be able to clearly see the forelimbs so a view facing the
>animal or at a slight angle would be ideal. I've looked online at great
>length but have found nothing for deer, other animals yes, but not deer.
>Thank you in advance for any help you can offer.
>
>Elizabeth
>
>Dr. Elizabeth Moore
>Curator of Archaeology
>Virginia Museum of Natural History
>1001 Douglas Avenue
>Martinsville, VA 24112
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