Dietary Change at Lower Pescado Village (NM12-I109)

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 below). All identified material was catalogued by FS unit, facilitating the recognition of dependent specimens (Grayson 1984). Summaries of the identifications are tabulated by age of deposits in Table I, by Unit in Table 2, and by stratum in Appendix A.