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To the world of birds! There are also some good scans and photos on the website site Aves3d. For example: http://aves3d.org/specimens/18-Alopochen-aegyptiacus/specimen_elements/1068-Cranium All the best, Julia Dr Julia Best Post-Doctoral Researcher Department of Archaeology, Anthropology and Forensic Science Faculty of Science and Technology Bournemouth University Talbot Campus Poole BH12 5BB Tel: +44 (0)1202 962074 Room: CG23 ________________________________ From: Analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Brenna Wheelis <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 04 March 2016 01:08:19 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [ZOOARCH] Fwd: Skull ID help Hi Jonathan, You might want to take a look at this website. http://www.skullsite.com/index.htm<http://www.skullsite.com/determination/> Best, Brenna Wheelis On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Matthew Campbell <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: Sheila is correct, it is from the duck family, rather more robust than my mallard comparative specimen From: Analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites [mailto:[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>] On Behalf Of S Hamilton-Dyer Sent: Friday, 4 March 2016 1:13 p.m. To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: [ZOOARCH] Fwd: Skull ID help Hi Jonathan - you should look at not mammal but bird skulls - ducks. You are led astray because the beak part is missing. Sheila 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??? [https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_11_image_list.png] IMAG3010.jpg<https://drive.google.com/a/vassar.edu/file/d/0B5GfM-1eVlUwWWJyTjBMcXp4RGtld2I0Mmp5M3M5T1gzbXpZ/view?usp=drive_web> ?? [https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_11_image_list.png] IMAG3009.jpg<https://drive.google.com/a/vassar.edu/file/d/0B5GfM-1eVlUwdzVMdHktNTF6NmJQMWZrNzNrMTU2V0dZTFhR/view?usp=drive_web> ?? [https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_11_image_list.png] IMAG3006.jpg<https://drive.google.com/a/vassar.edu/file/d/0B5GfM-1eVlUwYVJvVl91S2RadEctcnNNSU1PQndieldZM2Nn/view?usp=drive_web> ?? [https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_11_image_list.png] IMAG3008.jpg<https://drive.google.com/a/vassar.edu/file/d/0B5GfM-1eVlUwbEFVckh3UWk5ZXNrOGoxaUVaNDNfZ3ptMHdz/view?usp=drive_web> ?? [https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_11_image_list.png] IMAG3011.jpg<https://drive.google.com/a/vassar.edu/file/d/0B5GfM-1eVlUwUmtJbks3YmJFbi0zMHYzZGNLenN2R2YyVHZn/view?usp=drive_web> ? BU is a Disability Two Ticks Employer and has signed up to the Mindful Employer charter. Information about the accessibility of University buildings can be found on the BU DisabledGo webpages This email is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email, which must not be copied, distributed or disclosed to any other person. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Bournemouth University or its subsidiary companies. Nor can any contract be formed on behalf of the University or its subsidiary companies via email.