[Nhcoll-l] Ideas for housing lots of Pleistocene-Holocene Mammal Bones

[James and Judy Bryant]

The museum at the Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California may have some helpful tips (see https://tarpits.org). It’s typical for the fossils recovered at Rancho la Brea to be fully disarticulated and intermingled, to the extent that remains that can be attributed to a single individual are uncommon. In general, they have sorted and stored these fossils according to the skeletal element they represent. When I’ve visited their collections areas in the past it created an impression a bit like an automobile parts warehouse! ;-)

James Bryant
SOJOURN Science - Nature - Education
Santa Fe, NM
https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-bryant-0598a940/

On Feb 6, 2025, at 6:07 AM, Ó Gogáin, Aodhán <aogogain at museum.ie<mailto:aogogain at museum.ie>> wrote:

Hi All,

At the National Museum of Ireland we have lots of disarticulated post-cranial bones of giant Irish deer (Megaloceros), as well as some broken bits of antler. We are in the process of rehousing this material. The current plan is to separate material out based on bone type (so all the femora housed together, all the ribs housed together and so on). These will then be stored in crates/boxes and then shelved. We have very limited space so giving each bone, set of bones it's own drawer isn't really an option.

Would people have any examples of how their institutions store this type of material or have any recommendations on how to store it when there is a lot of it and space is limited?

All the best.
Aodhán




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