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​​​
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