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Butchery and Natural Disarticulation: An Investigatory Technique

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Andrew Hill
Andrew Hill*
Affiliation:
International Louis Leakey Memorial Institute, P.O. Box 46727, Nairobi, Kenya
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Abstract

The relative frequencies of intact skeletal joints in accumulations of mammalian remains can be used to produce models of the ways skeletons break apart in different circumstances. Information concerning disarticulation in the natural environment permits the detection in archaeological situations of features that may be due to prehistoric human butchery practices. The sequence of disarticulation of excavated Bison occidentalis butchered by North American Paleoindians is compared with that derived from natural assemblages of modern African Topi, Damaliscus korrigum.

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Reports
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American Antiquity , Volume 44 , Issue 4 , October 1979 , pp. 739 - 744
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1979

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