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Olsen and Olsen's Identity Crisis in Faunal Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Peter T. Bobrowsky
Peter T. Bobrowsky*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6
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Abstract

Corrections and additions to Olsen and Olsen's comment on terminology in faunal studies are provided. It is shown that a single term in faunal studies is not crucial to maintain subdisciplinary communication.

Proper words in proper places make the true de/inition of a style.

—Jonathan Swift

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American Antiquity , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , January 1982 , pp. 180 - 183
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1982

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