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Descriptive Attribute Value(s)
Record Type Bone specimen
Type of Specimen modern wild individual
Locality Ñuñoa
Province Puno
Country Perú
Other Geographic Note N/A
Setting (modern specimen) wild free-ranging
Name (modern specimen) N/A
Date (modern specimen) 1919
Repository name Museum of Paleontology
Repository location University of California
Repository web page https://ucmp.berkeley.edu
Camelid individual identification code (modern individuals only) 22885
Camelid individual identification alternative code Lg-14
Camelid individual identification extra information N/A
Skeletal element identification code Lg-14.F120
Skeletal element alternative code N/A
Skeletal element extra information N/A
Scientific name Lama guanicoe
ID method N/A -provided by the institution
Common name guanaco
Subspecies / type Lama guanicoe cacsilensis
Age of individual N/A
Age criteria / sources N/A
Sex of individual male
Sex criteria / sources Kaufmann (2009)
Element Os femoris [Femur]
Element extra information N/A
Element segment complete
Element side right
Fusion status of element Fused
Age of element N/A
Age of element criteria/sources N/A
Sex of element N/A
Sex of element criteria/sources N/A
Bone conditions met? True
Bone condition - extra information N/A
Author Gasco, Alejandra V.
Institutional Affiliation Laboratorio de Paleoecología Humana, Instituto Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Básicas (ICB), CONICET/UNCuyo
Bibliography - references cited and others 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. MS. Gasco, A. & J. Paiva (2022). Aportes osteométricos para el estatus de L. g. cacsilensis. V Taller Zooarqueología de Camélidos Sudamericanos. Córdoba, Argentina.
Comments N/A
Suggested Citation

Alejandra V. Gasco. (2024) "Bone Lg-14.F120 from Americas/Peru/Puno Region/Ñuñoa/Ind 22885". 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/88a04143-f005-4cd7-bd34-fa6a103d2ae9> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2s75sw64

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