This very usefull list allows us a good conversion of the names of the worl cetaceans. You can see the list here. Mammifères marins This document is proposed by the website Whales online: http://www.whales-online.net/eng/

A subject on mailing liste Zooarch about ivory give us the reference of a website in complement of that one here under the title ’Guide d’identification de l’ivoire et de ses substituts’. It’s a guide realised and presented by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service National Forensics Laboratory: http://www.lab.fws.gov/ivory.html Species examined : Elephant and Mammoth, Walrus, Sperm Whale and Killer Whale, Narwhal, Hippopotamus, Warthog. A published (...)

This guide come from CITES publication This identification manual is designed to offer wildlife law enforcement officers, scientists and managers a tentative visual means of distinguishing different types of ivory (elephant, walrus, whale, etc.) and of ivory substitutes (bone, shell, manufactured substitutes, etc.). This publication is available as PDF file (946 KB). Click here to view or download (...)

A very useful and beautiful site: http://www.shearwater.nl/seabird-os.... JHY The Seabird Ostelogy Pages slowly developed from a site that showed the variety of seabird skulls to an online ostelogical collection of seabird skeletons for various uses. It still shows and explains the diversity of seabird skulls and bones and their development, adaptation to environmental and ecological circumstances. It also provides good examples of the most important skeletal parts that can be of use in (...)

Reference : Valentin RADU, "Atlas for the identification of bony fish bones from archaeological sites", CONTRAST-BUCURESTI, 2005, 77 p., ISBN-10: 973-87660-0-1. The editorial board of "Studii de Preistorie" reaches a long-planned milestone, achieves a long-pursued goal and, at the same time, fulfills a duty of honor by initiating the "Supplementum" series. The series is opened by the first atlas of identification of fish remains from archeological sites ever to be published. The author of (...)

The plan of determinations plates is going on. Here are the first plates planned: Little bones of pig “Sus scrofa domesticus” Mysterious or rare bones (snout of pig or heart beef bone...) Little bones of birds (specially cock and goose) Bone fragments hardly identified Skeleton of rare/special species: for example a 22-week horse foetus. You will surely have other ideas and you can reply to this article for suggestions. All photos and documents are (...)

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