by Bernard K. Means, Director of the Virtual Curation Laboratory (VCL)
Today’s animation is a deer vertebra recovered archaeologically from the Peck 1 site, a Monongahela village site located in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. It was excavated by a Work Projects Administration Crew from October 13, 1936 to January 29, 1937 and under the direction of Edgar E. Augustine.
This artifact is now in the collections of Carnegie Museum of Natural History where it was 3D scanned.