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Techniques for Skeletonizing Vertebrates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Abstract

Clean, odor free vertebrate skeletons can easily be prepared in from two days to a week by using bacterial or enzyme maceration in conjunction with other techniques.

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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1975

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