Osteology for the Archaeologist: No. 3: The American Mastodon and the Woolly Mammoth; No. 4: North American Birds: Skulls and Mandibles; No. 5: North American Birds Postcranial Skeletons

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

Publisher: Peabody Museum

Pub Date: 2006 (Fourth printing)

Binding: Paperback

Condition:  2 copies.  Copy 1 (OD): Good to Very Good.  Still in publisher’s shrink wrap.  As new.  Copy 2 (OD):  Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Appears unused.

Notes: Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology, Vol. 56, Nos. 3, 4, and 5.  Numbers 3 and 4 were originally published in 1972 (see https://joethebookguy.com/shop/archaeology/osteology-for-the-archaeologist-no-3-the-american-mastodon-and-the-woolly-mammoth-and-no-4-north-american-birds/ ), with Number 5 added in 1979.   “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 comparative 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).  Part 4  (bird skulls and mandibles) represented forty families of birds most likely to be found at sites, with Part 5 examining the post-cranial skeletons of the same forty families of birds (pelicans, flamingos, vultures, ducks, hawks, grouse, turkey, sandhill crane, killdeer, gulls, doves, parrots, roadrunners, owls, woodpeckers, crows, robins, meadowlarks, just to name a few).  For a biography of Olsen, see  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_John_Olsen