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Identification of all faunal osteological material from Lower Pescado Village on the Zuni Indian Reservation, including bone tools and a few specimens of human bone, was conducted using the vertebrate comparative collections at the Thomas Burke Memorial Washington Stale Museum at the University of Washington, and the Puget Sound Museum of Natural History at the University of Puget Sound, in concert with published criteria for distinguishing between closely related taxa (see Descriptive Summary...
The People of Casas Grandes: Cranial and Dental Morphology Through Time (1971)
Casas Grandes offers an unusual opportunity for a physical anthropologist. There is good archaeological control of spatial and temporal distributions of the skeletal populations, and therefore the results of examinations of these skeletons can contribute important data to general studies of micro-evolutionary changes in Homo sapiens. Studies of the genetics of morphological variation and analysis of discontinous traits of skeletons aid in understanding micro-evolutionary change. This project...