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Animal bone fragments, including one distal femur fragment
Animal bone fragments, including one distal femur fragment
Object Number 987-22-10/108739
Display Title Animal bone fragments, including one distal femur fragment
Descriptions
Inventory Description Animal bone fragments, including one distal femur fragment
Classification
  • Faunal Remain
Department Archaeological
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Massachusetts / Middlesex County / Cambridge / Harvard Yard
Intrasite Old Yard, Unit 39, see remarks
Materials Animal bone
Dimensions Overall (Measurements of largest): 10.1 × 9.8 × 8.4 cm (4 × 3 7/8 × 3 5/16 in.)
Quantity 6
Label on object H39-5

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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
Worked animal bone tool fragments, possible beamers, made from distal femur, proximal femur, and distal metapodial
07-6-10/78086 Worked animal bone tool fragments, possible beamers, made from distal femur, proximal femur, and distal metapodial
Utilized bone
Madisonville
Animal bone fragments, including skull with sagittal crest, two mandible fragments with some teeth intact, two vertebrae, femurs, humeri, ulnas, tibias, radii, metapodials, and teeth; one bird bone fragment, possibly worked
63-4-10/40655 Animal bone fragments, including skull with sagittal crest, two mandible fragments with some teeth intact, two vertebrae, femurs, humeri, ulnas, tibias, radii, metapodials, and teeth; one bird bone fragment, possibly worked
Faunal Remain
Turpin Homestead Site; Ohio State Site # 33HA28 (105; 19)
Organic, animal bone fragments, including calcaneus, metapodial, tibia, femur, and mandible; animal teeth; fish bone fragments; bird bone fragments, including humerus; two fragments crossmend
2019.15.11 Organic, animal bone fragments, including calcaneus, metapodial, tibia, femur, and mandible; animal teeth; fish bone fragments; bird bone fragments, including humerus; two fragments crossmend
Faunal Remain
Peach Orchard Site
Animal bone fragments, including skull fragment, proximal femur fragment; bird bone fragments, including two carpometacarpus fragments, tarsometatarsus fragment; calcined bone fragment; rodent tooth fragment; worked and polished bone fragment, ovoid perforation
63-4-10/40625 Animal bone fragments, including skull fragment, proximal femur fragment; bird bone fragments, including two carpometacarpus fragments, tarsometatarsus fragment; calcined bone fragment; rodent tooth fragment; worked and polished bone fragment, ovoid perforation
Utilized bone
Faunal Remain
Turpin Homestead Site; Ohio State Site # 33HA28 (105; 19)
Animal bone, including skull fragments, femur, pelvis, and mandible fragments with some teeth intact; animal teeth
63-4-10/39766 Animal bone, including skull fragments, femur, pelvis, and mandible fragments with some teeth intact; animal teeth
Faunal Remain
Turpin Homestead Site; Ohio State Site # 33HA28 (105; 19)
Mammal bone fragments, 1 likely bovine femur distal epiphysis
987-22-10/108954 Mammal bone fragments, 1 likely bovine femur distal epiphysis
Faunal Remain
Harvard Yard
Faunal remain, fragment, distal right femur, Leporid, Sylvilagus?
977-22-10/100041 Faunal remain, fragment, distal right femur, Leporid, Sylvilagus?
Faunal Remain
Lake George; LMS 21-N-1; Mississippi State Site # 22Yz557
Fragments of bones, probably ox or aurochs, includes distal end of femur
12-17-40/E269 Fragments of bones, probably ox or aurochs, includes distal end of femur
Fragment
France
Animal bone fragments; one fragment is the distal end of a tibia, with butchery marks
996-3-10/102978 Animal bone fragments; one fragment is the distal end of a tibia, with butchery marks
Faunal Remain
Harvard Yard
Organic, worked animal bone fragments, likely scrapers or beamers, some worked from metapodials, one from femur; worked antler fragment, likely scraper or beamer
08-3-10/79551 Organic, worked animal bone fragments, likely scrapers or beamers, some worked from metapodials, one from femur; worked antler fragment, likely scraper or beamer
Utilized Antler
Utilized bone
Madisonville
Animal femur (bovid?), worked, perforated all the way through, distal end broken
2002.1.1619 Animal femur (bovid?), worked, perforated all the way through, distal end broken
Shaft, modified
Raw Material
Homolka
Bone, ovis aries, sheep distal right femur
2005.17.165.2 Bone, ovis aries, sheep distal right femur
Faunal Remain
Harvard Yard