Dear Jaqui,
The following publication should be helpful:
The Analysis of owl pellets by D.W. Yalden. You can order it through the
mammal society.
Jessica
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Zooarchaeologist
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From: Analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites
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Sent: 04 February 2009 16:08
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Subject: [ZOOARCH] small mammal bone id
Dear All,
You're such a helpful and responsive bunch that I hope you'll also be
kind to a
lurking botanist!
Can you provide some basic literature references that would of use
starting in
identification of small mammals - the types that lurk around granaries.
Durham
has an excellent reference colllection but something to help me get into
which
bones it's even worth trying to identify would be a good start. I assume
not
vertebrae or ribs for examples but what about long bones? It's
especially in
relation to small numbers of such bones that I have in bulk samples from
Vindolanda granaries - so, Roman military.
Thanks in advance for any help,
best wishes
Jacqui
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Jacqui Huntley
English Heritage NE Regional Science Advisor,
Honorary Research Associate
Department of Archaeology,
University of Durham
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