Bones from Awatovi, Northeastern Arizona

Description

Authors: Olsen, Stanley J. (1919-2003) and Wheeler, Richard Page (1909-1997)

Publisher: Peabody Museum

Pub Date: 1978

Binding: Paperback

Condition:  (BKS): Fair.  Binding tight.  No bends, folds.  Previous owner’s name in ink on upper front cover corner.  One approx. dime-sized chip near upper rear cover corner.  Edge and corner wear.  Scuffing to front and rear covers.  Smudging to bottom text block.

Notes: Papers of the Peabody Museum Volume 70, Numbers 1 and 2.  Reports of the Awatovi Expedition No. 11.  Number 1: The Faunal Analysis, by Olsen; Number 2: Bone and Antler Artifacts, by Wheeler.  All of the bones (non-human) encountered by archaeologists between 1935 and 1939, during the Awatovi excavation.  After the excavation finished and until 1974 this collection was housed in the attic of the Peabody Museum.  Includes both wild (birds, rabbits, prairie dogs, squirrels, rats, beaver, mice, fox, bear, deer and antelope) and “introduced” domestic mammals (horse, burro, pig, cow, sheep, goat).