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Hi Jonathan, additionally to Brenna's and Julia's suggetions for online bird skull identification tools here is another useful bird skull site: http://www.shearwater.nl/?file=kop1.php Best Christian -- Knochenarbeit Hans Christian Küchelmann Konsul-Smidt-Straße 30, D-28217 Bremen, Germany tel: +49 - 421 - 61 99 177 fax: +49 - 421 - 37 83 540 mail: [log in to unmask] web: http://www.knochenarbeit.de Am 04.03.2016 um 02:08 schrieb Brenna Wheelis: > Hi Jonathan, > > You might want to take a look at this website. > http://www.skullsite.com/index.htm > > Best, > Brenna Wheelis > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Matthew Campbell <[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]] On Behalf Of S Hamilton-Dyer > Sent: Friday, 4 March 2016 1:13 p.m. > To: [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 > > IMAG3010.jpg > > > IMAG3009.jpg > > > IMAG3006.jpg > > > IMAG3008.jpg > > > IMAG3011.jpg > > > > > >