Selected Illustrated Guides and Keys:
Brown, C. L., Gustafson, C. E., 1979. A key to postcranial skeletal remains of cattle/bison, elk, and horse. WSU Laboratory of Anthropology Reports of Investigations, No. 57. Washington State University.
Cannon, D.Y., 1987. Marine fish osteology: a manual for archaeologists. Department of Archaeology. Publication No. 18. Simon Fraser University.
France, D. L., 2009. Human and nonhuman bone identification : a colour atlas. Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton.
Gee, H. , 1993. The distinction between postcranial bones of Bos primigenius Bojanus, 1827 and Bison priscus Bojanus 1827 from the British Pleistocene and the taxonomic status of Bos and Bison. Journal of Quaternary Science 8, 79-92.
Gilbert, B.M., 1990. Mammalian osteology (second printing). Missouri Archaeological Society, Columbia.
Gilbert, B.M., Martin, L., Savage, H., 1985. Avian osteology. Missouri Archaeological Society,Columbia.
Hilson, S., 1986. Teeth. Cambridge University Press, New York.
Howard, H., 1929. The avifauna of Emeryville Shellmound. University of California Publications in Zooology 32, 301-94.
Olsen , S. J., 1960. Post-cranial skeletal characters of Bison and Bos. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge 35, #4.
Olsen, S. J., 1964. Mammal Remains from Archaeological Sites Part 1: Southeastern and Southwestern United States. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge.
Olsen, S. J., 1968. Fish, Amphibian and reptile remains from archaeological sites. : Southeastern and Southwestern United States. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, 56, #2.
Olsen, S. J. 1972. Osteology for the archaeologist: No. 3. The American mastodon and the woolly mammoth, No. 4., North American birds: skulls and mandibles, No. 5. North American birds: postcranial skeletons. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, 56, #2.
Pales, L. Lambert, C. Garcia, M-A., 1981. Atlas osteologique pour servir a l'identification des mammiferes du quaternaire. Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris.
Schmid, E. Atlas of animal bones for prehistorians, archaeologists, and Quaternary geologists. Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam.
Smith, G. 1979. Mammalian zooarchaeology, Alaska: a manual for identifying and analyzing mammal bones from archaeological sites in Alaska. Occasional Paper No. 18. University of Alaska, Fairbanks.