Osteology for the Archaeologist: No. 3: The American Mastodon and the Woolly Mammoth and No. 4: North American Birds

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Author: Olsen, Stanley J. (1919-2003)

Publisher: Peabody Museum

Pub Date: 1972

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Previous owner’s stamp on inside front cover.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Smudging to bottom text block.

Notes: Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology, Vol. 56, Nos. 3 and 4.  “Both the mammoth and the mastodon survived into the late Pleistocene, and numerous carbon 14 dates of associated material indicate that these animals survived until roughly 8000 to 4000 B.C….The present compariative analysis was undertaken in an effort to aid the field and laboratory worker in identifying the fossil proboscidean bones that turn up in early man sites.”  (From the Introduction).  Why didn’t “tastes like mastodon” ever catch on?