Dear David et al.,

We didn't let our archaeologist colleagues quit the dig without a
complete inventory of all taxa they retrieved - including the landsnails!

Harry


At 01:13 PM 4/24/2007, you wrote:
>Unfortunately, archaeologists tend to get more excited about a highy
>carved piece of shell than a reasonably complete and identifiable
>specimen, so the information in reports is not always what one might
>like from a malacological perspective.  There are some exceptions-the
>Vokes were involved in some work in Yucatan, ca. early 1970's, for
>example.
>
>--
>Dr. David Campbell
>425 Scientific Collections
>University of Alabama
>"I think of my happy condition, surrounded by acres of clams"

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