Steve,
 
    You might try:
 
Cannon, Debbi Yee
1987    "Marine Fish Osteology  A Manual for Archaeologists."
    Publication no. 18. Dept. of Archaeology Simon Fraser University,
    Burnaby, B.C.
 
Good Luck!
Lee Cranmer
 
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From: Steve Boxley
To:  HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Subject:  Fish bone reference book
Date: 1998-12-17 14:10
Priority: 3
 
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>All,
>   Apologies for cross-posting.
 
>We are in need of a very good book on telling apart different fish
>remains from a 17th century coastal site in Virginia.  We have recently
>come across a trashpit with thousands of different types of scales and
>bones and would like to find out the species.  (I can do sturgeon, gar,
>and the rest of the common fish, but some of this stuff I have never seen
>before!)  Anyone know of such a book?  Thanks.
 
 --
>Steve Boxley,  Ja.T., M.N.
>The Virginia Foundation for Archaeological Research, Inc.
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