Hi Nancy,
You also might have some luck with these additional eggshell refs (I have
pdfs if needed):
Beach, E.B. and Durand, S.R. 2007. Eggshell and the archaeological record:
new insights into turkey husbandry in the American Southwest. Journal of
Archaeological Science 34: 1610-1621.
Conrad, C., Jones, E.L., Newsome, S.D. and Schwartz, D.W. 2016. Bone
isotopes, eggshell and turkey husbandry at Arroyo Hondo Pueblo. Journal of
Archaeological Science: Reports. DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.06.016
Keepax, C.A. 1981. Avian egg-shell from archaeological sites. Journal of
Archaeological Science 8: 315-335.
Lamzik, K.E. 2013. “It all began, like so many things, with an egg,” An
Analysis of the Avian Fauna and Eggshell Assemblage From a 19th Century
Enslaved African American Subfloor Pit, Poplar Forest, Virginia. M.A.
thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee.
Lapham, H.A., Feinman, G.M. and Nicholas, L.M. 2016. Turkey husbandry and
use in Oaxaca, Mexico: A contextual study of turkey remains and SEM
analysis of eggshell from the Mitla Fortress. Journal of Archaeological
Science: Reports. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.05.058
Reed, C.A. 1965. North American Bird Eggs. Dover Publications, Inc.: New
York.
Romanoff, A.L. and Romanoff, A.J. 1949. The Avian Egg. John Wiley and Sons,
Inc.: New York.
Slidell, E.J. 1993. A Methodology for the Identification of Avian Eggshell
from Archaeological Sites. Archaeofauna 2: 45-51.
If you can get access to a SEM that would helpful! As you can see from
these refs, most of the published eggshell work has been completed on
turkeys. Although, Kathryn Lamzik's MA thesis on eggs from a 19th century
site in Virginia includes analysis of many different species.
One way to quickly see if you might be dealing with a batch of eggshell
from one or many different species is to simply measure their thickness.
That will give you a rough range for the different types of species that
may be represented. There are useful thickness range tables in Sidell 1993
and Romanoff and Romanoff 1949.
Hope that helps!
Cyler
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Cyler Conrad, M.A., RPA
Ph.D. Student
Department of Anthropology
University of New Mexico
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On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 10:05 AM, O'Malley, Nancy <[log in to unmask]>
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> 2 questions: First, can someone provide me with a copy of D.P. White's
> article, The Birmingham Button Industry, published in 1977 in Post-Medieval
> Archaeology (Vol. 11)? Second, I have eggshell from a late eighteenth fort
> site in Kentucky. I am looking for someone who has the expertise and
> equipment to identify whether it is domestic or wild and possibly the
> species. I have a copy of Elizabeth Sidell's 1993 Methodology for the
> Identification of Archaeological Eggshell (MASCA); is anyone out there
> doing eggshell id? Thanks.
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