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| Record Type | Bone specimen |
| Type of Specimen | modern wild individual |
| Locality | Sierra del Aconquija |
| Province | Catamarca |
| Country | Argentina |
| Other Geographic Note | >3500 m.a.s.l., eastern slope of Nevados del Aconquija |
| Setting (modern specimen) | wild free-ranging |
| Name (modern specimen) | N/A |
| Date (modern specimen) | 2007 |
| Repository name | reference collection of the Laboratorio de Zooarqueología y Tafonomía de Zonas Áridas (LaZTA, IDACOR, CONICET-UNC) |
| Repository location | Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina |
| Repository web page | N/A |
| Camelid individual identification code (modern individuals only) | CMACLGu11 |
| Camelid individual identification alternative code | N/A |
| Camelid individual identification extra information | N/A |
| Skeletal element identification code | MTd 54 |
| Skeletal element alternative code | N/A |
| Skeletal element extra information | N/A |
| Scientific name | Lama guanicoe |
| ID method | comparison to reference collections, morphology of lower incisors |
| Common name | guanaco |
| Subspecies / type | N/A |
| Age of individual | 3-4 years old |
| Age criteria / sources | bone fusion, tooth eruption/wear (Kaufmann 2009, Puig & Monge 1983) |
| Sex of individual | male |
| Sex criteria / sources | innominate, upper incisors and canines (Kaufmann 2009) |
| Element | |
| Element extra information | N/A |
| Element segment | complete |
| Element side | right |
| Fusion status of element | Fused |
| Age of element | 3-4 years old |
| Age of element criteria/sources | bone fusion (Kaufmann 2009) |
| Sex of element | N/A |
| Sex of element criteria/sources | N/A |
| Bone conditions met? | True |
| Bone condition - extra information | N/A |
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| Bibliography - references cited and others |
Driesch, A. Von den 1976. A guide to the measurement of animal bones from archaeological sites. Peabody Museum Bulletins (1). Harvard University, Boston.
Kaufmann, C. 2009. Estructura de edad y sexo en guanaco. Estudios actualísticos y arqueológicos en Pampa y Patagonia. Sociedad Argentina de Antropología, Buenos Aires. Kent, J. 1982 The Domestication and Exploitation of the South American Camelids: Methods of Analysis and their Application to Circum-lacustrine Archaeological Sites in Bolivia and Peru. Tesis doctoral inédita. Depto. de Antropología, Washington Universidad St. Louis, Missouri, pp.626. Mengoni Goñalons, G. L. & D. C. Elkin 2021. Guanaco (Lama guanicoe) osteometric data from an individual from Northwest Argentina. Released: 2021-09-15. Open Context. (http://opencontext.org/projects/01860ee9-6fb6-4e71-8958-113fb852c850) Mondini, M. & A. S. Muñoz 2017. Osteometrics of South-Central Andean wild camelids: New standards. In: Zooarchaeology in the Neotropics; Environmental Diversity and Human-Animal Interactions (ed. by M. Mondini, A. S. Muñoz & P. M. Fernández), pp. 177-188. Springer, Cham. Puig, S. & S. Monge. 1983. Determinación de la edad en Lama guanicoe (Muller). Deserta 7: 246-270. |
| Comments | digital caliper: TESA IP65, resolution = 0,01 mm, accuracy = 0,02 mm |
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Lama guanicoe
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animal material
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South America
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Suggested Citation
Mariana Mondini, A. Sebastián Muñoz. (2025) "Bone MTd 54 from Americas/Argentina/Catamarca/Sierra del Aconquija/Ind CMACLGu11". In Osteometric Database of South American Camelids. Mariana Mondini, G. Lorena L'Heureux, Carlos R. Belotti López de Medina, Sarah Whitcher Kansa (Ed). Released: In prep. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/6d7e8f69-3f4e-42d8-a5eb-b7530188d23e> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k29s25w8p
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