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PS the size might be goose - but this family anyway. SH-D ArchaeoZoology http://www.shd-archzoo.co.uk On 03/03/2016 23:42, Jonathan Alperstein wrote: > HI > I am an student at Vassar college, After taking a zooarchaeology I > wanted to maintain my skills with animal bone identification and have > been working in our archaeology lab to keep these skills. While > working on some of the unidentified material we have these two small > skulls in our collection, even with working with multiple reference > books and online sources we still can not find out what animal these > came from. From our reference material we are pretty sure that it is > to a beaver, mountain beaver, opossum, marmot muskrat, wood chuck, > squirrel, or a lagamorph. TO make things even more difficult my > professor is pretty sure they are a local find from the Hudson > Valley(NY) but there is a chance that they came over from a site in > Europe. I was told by my professor since we couldn't figure it out to > send an email and see if you could help with the identification. If > you can't help I completely understand just thought I would give this > a shot. I have attached some of the pictures I have taken(sorry they > are not the best quality). > Thanks, > Jonathan Alperstein > Anthropology Major > Vassar College > IMAG3010.jpg > <https://drive.google.com/a/vassar.edu/file/d/0B5GfM-1eVlUwWWJyTjBMcXp4RGtld2I0Mmp5M3M5T1gzbXpZ/view?usp=drive_web> > > IMAG3009.jpg > <https://drive.google.com/a/vassar.edu/file/d/0B5GfM-1eVlUwdzVMdHktNTF6NmJQMWZrNzNrMTU2V0dZTFhR/view?usp=drive_web> > > IMAG3006.jpg > <https://drive.google.com/a/vassar.edu/file/d/0B5GfM-1eVlUwYVJvVl91S2RadEctcnNNSU1PQndieldZM2Nn/view?usp=drive_web> > > IMAG3008.jpg > <https://drive.google.com/a/vassar.edu/file/d/0B5GfM-1eVlUwbEFVckh3UWk5ZXNrOGoxaUVaNDNfZ3ptMHdz/view?usp=drive_web> > > IMAG3011.jpg > <https://drive.google.com/a/vassar.edu/file/d/0B5GfM-1eVlUwUmtJbks3YmJFbi0zMHYzZGNLenN2R2YyVHZn/view?usp=drive_web> > > >